I had a miscarriage on May 26th, 2010. I was between 7 and 8 weeks pregnant. My last u/s was at 5.5 weeks and there wasn't really a baby visible, so we're not sure if a baby ever really formed or not. The m/c was traumatic and horrible.
My husband and I decided to try right away to become pregnant again and did not wait for a normal cycle. We were lucky to become pregnant again right away and I found out on July 2nd, 2010. On July 27th, I had an early u/s for dating purposes and was 6w6d. So that would put me at 9w1d right now.
Everything was going perfectly until I woke up yesterday to find that I was having some brown bloody vaginal discharge. It started out very watery and got thicker throughout the day. At the end of last night, I found a small brown clot about the size of my pinkie fingernail in my panty liner. Today, I had just a little bit of light brown spotting. I am concerned because I'm also losing small pieces of fleshy-looking stuff, exactly like I did in the weeks leading up to my previous m/c.
I have a home fetal doppler and decided to try yesterday at 9 weeks to see if I could hear the heartbeat. I had tried it a couple times already, and was fully expecting it to be too early. To my surprise, I found the heartbeat loud and clear in the 160's. I didn't find it this morning or late afternoon when I tried to find it and got pretty discouraged, but then I did find it again tonight (tried again with a full bladder), and there it was in the 160's-170's. At one point I could hear its heartbeat and mine at the same time, so it was nice to know I wasn't just imagining it.
So my question is... what should I do, if anything? The appearance of the spotting and the little weird fleshy pieces I'm losing remind me exactly of what I had in the weeks leading up to my m/c. So I'm terrified that I have a little heartbeat in there right now, and it might not be there tomorrow. I talked to the nurse yesterday and she said if I'm going to miscarry, there's nothing they can do about it, and just to watch it. But do you think I should call and demand an u/s to try to find a cause for my spotting? Or should I just leave it alone since I have the heartbeat and there's no way to fix an early m/c anyway...?