Subchorionic Hemmorage/Bleed

Hi F.

I also had that happen to me but on my side the doctor was concerned about it and had me on bedrest . But I still lost the baby at 18 weeks . My doctor told me that there is no way to tell how your body is going to handle it . Since then I have had two beautiful babies with no problems .

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I do not have personal experience with this but I have quite a few friends who had bleeding while pregnant and all of them were put on complete bed rest.

This sounds just like what happened to me with my son. My Dr. wasn't as attentive as your seems to have been and your out come was better than mine. I was never told what caused my pre-term labor at 20 weeks or what could have been done to prevent my son's death. It did happen just as fast and with little warning. I guess I should have asked more questions or pushed for a different doctor since mine was not listening to my concerns. Live and learn though. I did have another high risk pregnancy but with a great team of doctors and did have a beautiful baby girl. I am so happy to hear you and your daughter are well.

I don't know anything about what happened. I just wanted to say I am sorry.

F.,

I do not know anything about the bleed, however I do know how much it hurts to lose a child. Mine was a 22 week loss and due to an infection in the placenta. My care was very similar to what yours was and I still think of it often and wonder if I had another physician maybe my son would have lived. I just want to say I am very sorry for your loss and there really are no words that can help. I will keep you in my prayers. We as the parents are left with such an emptiness and a bunch of what if's. I was given a book during my grieving time and just wanted to share a piece of it with you that described my feelings. "The worst thing about death is that it leaves the living behind. Maybe that's why I feel so angry about my loss; I have no control over it. I can't follow my son. He's somewhere else, doing something I don't know about. I have to wait for my life to live itself out before I can see him again." The book is called Always Precious in our Memory by Kristen Johnson Ingram. I am a reader and it really helped me through the grieving process. Take care, Angela

F.,

Your doctor was right. You were just part of the special 5%. My sister had similar problems (subchorionic hemmorage) with her third child and did deliver a healthy baby at full term. Every pregnancy carries risk - and truly you never know what will happen. Odds of it happening again - I'd ask your OB.

Lisa (mom of 4 boys)

I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you. Like other posters have said, just know there was nothing you could have done to prevent it. I am currently 16 weeks 2 days pregnant, and at my 8 week ultrasound was told I have 2 small subchorionic hemmorages. I was already seeing a high risk dr along with a perinatologist because my previous pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 12 weeks (that miscarriage had NOTHING to do with a subchorionic hemmorage, but with chromosomal abnormalities) At any rate they told me, and continue to tell me, not to worry about it. They said it is very very common, most people just don't know they have one because they don't have early ultrasounds done. I have not bled at all yet, but was told to call them right away if I do happen to bleed. Basically from what I got out of it, the larger they are, the more at risk you are to lose the baby. It sounds like you did everything in your power to combat it, bad things just sometimes happen to good people. Take time to heal and always hold your baby in your heart.

F., I am so sorry that this happened to you! I want you to know that you did nothing to cause this! You went on your doctor's word and that is all you could do. You have no fault in this. It's so easy when something goes horribly wrong to place all the blame on our own shoulders but you are FREE of blame.
I don't know what else to say to ease this traumatic experience but sometimes it helps to have a visual reminder of your baby. My sister got a "mother and child" pendant necklace when she had a miscarriage and she uses it to know that her baby is close to her heart.
I pray blessing on you and your family. I am so sorry for your loss.

First of all, I am very sorry for your loss. I think unfortunately you were one of the unlucky ones this could happen to. Nothing anyone can say will make your pain go away but I wish you the best of luck in the future conceiving again. Unfortuntely Dr's aren't miracle workers but I encourage you next time to get a 2nd or 3rd opinion if you experience complications in the future.
Good luck and I hope you heal quickly!

F.,
I am so sorry for your loss.

I had a SCH (Subchorionic hemmorage) with my first child. I started to bleed at about 14 week. At first the doctor said it is not a big deal unless it is bright red blood, well the next day it was and I went in for an ultrasound that day. I saw the baby was fine but I had a SCH. Mine was small at that point and My doctor said research has not proven that bed rest helps but to take it easy (my husband did the house cleaning, etc) I was told SCH are very common early in pregnancies. I had never heard of it before and gooogle it on the internet I came across a wonderful website angelfire.com stories of women with SCH, some ended in a loss and some ended in a healthy baby. I found this site very comforting when I was dealing with my SCH. I bleed until about 20 weeks and stopped, at that point they said it was resolved. I did have a placental abruption during delivery which was probably related to the SCH. Now my baby is a healthy 2 year boy, so I was lucky. There is truely nothing you did, my doctor told me all the time there is really nothing I could do to make it better but pray.
I am 28 weeks with my second and more problems but I keep praying I will make full term.

My prayers are with you.
M.

I just wanted to let you know that I am so sorry for your loss. You are in my prayers. I have miscarried more than once for other reasons and my heart goes out to you. I did have a doctor that didn't take me seriously with my second child, he luckily made it okay but there were terrible complications when I wasn't listened to that I knew something was wrong. I suggest you switch doctors for if and when you decide to have another child you need to be comfortable with your doc.
J.

Hi F.,
First of all, I am terribly sorry that you lost your baby. That is devastating and my heart goes out to you.
I too suffered a subchorionic bleed but unlike you was put on bed rest because of the risk of possibly losing my baby.
I started to bleed very heavy at 12 weeks and thought I was having a miscarriage. I went to the hospital where they determined it was a subchorionic bleed. I went to see a high risk doctor, who put me on bed rest until the bleed healed. This took almost another 12 weeks (Strict bed rest the whole time).
I did a lot of reading on the internet and if I remember correctly the risk is more like 50/50 not 95/5 but maybe I am wrong. Regardless, I think your doctor took your situation too lightly. Maybe she hasn't had this happen to a lot of her patients or maybe the risk really is 95/5 and so she assumed you would be fine but still she should have been more cautious b/c even a 5% risk is too high to take chances with in my opininon. I am terribly sorry for you that you have had to go through this but I think that it is important that you know that you are at greater risk of this happening again with a future pregnancy b/c it happened with this one.
Hopefully, your e-mail will save another baby from being lost by someone out there reading about your situation and learning from it that any bleed is not normal when pregnant and shouldn't be taken lightly.
Again, I'm so sorry for you loss, esp. if it could have been prevented by being put on bed rest.
Sincerely,
L.

I am so sorry for the loss of your baby. But know that nothing you did or didn't do was a factor.

To be honest, though 5% sounds small, it is actually, statistically-speaking, a very high ratio. A "small chance" is something like .01%...Or 1 in 10,000.

I am very sorry for your loss! I have also had a couple of losses for different reasons but on a good note I have 4 beautiful healthy children!I wish you good luck if you decide to try again. I just wanted to say you are in my thoughts and I pray you will be ok I know what a difficult time this can be in the future you may want to try a different doctor I had very good doctors when I had my losses and a good doctor makes all the difference in the world when you know something isn't right.Good luck to you and your family :) J.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I would highly recommend you go to a highrisk obgyn next time. I'm with a highrisk clinic and had my case transferred over as they only take referrals but they don't play around. I'm in the office twice a week with ultrasounds and stress tests. It's not that my doctors can prevent or stop anything from happening as their not God but they are more knowledgable and are experianced with the not so normal pregnancies. If you have more children demand your care be overlooked at by a perinatologist. Again I'm really sorry for your loss that sounds so frightening.

I think it's odd that you called and told them you were bleeding and they told you to wait until Monday. My doctors would have told me to get my butt to the hospital NOW.

Oh, F.: I am crying for you this morning. I can feel the pain you're in, and wish I were there to hug and hold you and tell you it'll be alright after awhile. I lost a little one at 8 wks, and I know God is holding him in His arms, until I'm able to. I hope you find peace as time goes on.