Hi sisterhood. 3rd pregnancy here. Unplanned. Have had normal pregnancy symptoms which prompted me to take a test. On Sunday I had some very heavy bleeding and was passing quite a few large blood clots. I went straight to the ER where they confirmed pregnancy and sent me in for a scan. Whilst being scanned the sonogropher confirmed there was a heartbeat but the gestational sac was very low and had actually attached to previous scar tissue from c sections. She said “im really sorry” and sent me back out to await the doctor. The doctor was puzzled and said it was an ectopic pregnancy but not ectopic in the true sense, said it wasn’t his area of expertise but at this stage the pregnancy is viable and I hadn’t miscarried. I was sent home with pain relief and a specialist called me in the morning. On Friday I have to have a contrast MRI. Nobody has really told me anything, but every time I speak to someone they ask how I’m feeling, am I emotionally coping, has the bleeding subsided. If anything should change or the bleeding gets worse I am to come straight back to the ER.I feel like everyone is tiptoeing around the fact that it’s not good news. This pregnancy wasn’t planned, not that it makes any difference as woman we still grow attached. Ceasearan scar ectopic pregnancy is so rare there isn’t really any information out there. What I do know though is that once the baby starts growing the risk of hemmorage is extremely high and doctors do suggest that the pregnancy would be best terminated by either surgery or injections. I don’t know what I am asking really, I feel terrified. I just needed to vent really. Has anyone been through this before? I feel like my body has failed me.
******update*** this update will probably come before it’s posted on the Facebook page, but thankyou in advance for any comments and advice you may have left. I was flown from our little regional town four hours away to John Hunter hospital as I was a major risk for my uterine wall rupturing. I had emergency surgery this morning. unfortunately they had to remove the gestational sac and baby. The hardest thing was seeing that this baby was healthy and had very strong heartbeat but yet it couldn’t be :-( (please no judgement) it’s been a really hard week but I am so thankful everything went as well as it could for this extremely rare condition. I am just so thankful it was caught early enough and I am able to sit here and write to you all. Xx
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Yes I have been through this and am surprised by how everyone is acting as it wasn't like that for me at all. I terminated as there was a 0% chance the baby would live and I have been 2 kids already and it would have been dangerous for me if I chose not to terminate so I made the choice pretty quickly. I was told straight away, there was no tip toeing.
We live in a pretty small costal town and tbh I don’t think any of the doctors have seen this before. I have to wait for the specialist on Friday after my MRI. The only person who was honest with me was the sonographr. The other doctor said “this is not my area of expertise so I cannot give you any info” I spoke to a lovely lady who phoned me yesterday and said not to hesitate to present back to the er should any thing new develop. She said once my mri is done they will have more info and we can go from there. Did you have heavy bleeding? How did you find out or did they pick it up in a routine scan? I am 7.4 weeks pregnant. I’ve had 2 cs and had placenta preveria with my last pregnancy 5 years ago.
They picked it up in a scan but I was only just over 4 weeks and I did bleed afterwards. They wanted me to terminate very quickly.
No advice unfortunately but I just wanted to say I'm thinking of you!