Ok, TMI coming your way.. Post D&C stuff,

Ok, so, TMI TMI coming your way.

Have had fairly heavy-ish bleeding since monday when i had my D&C,, i expected some bleeding, that's fine, was lightish on monday evening and tuesday. then got some like bad period pains during the night on tuesday, woke up shaking (which is what i tend to do when i am in pain.. i shake) 2 panadol fixed it fine. Anyway have still had bursts of heavy bleeding for last couple of days, with bad period pain usually starting late afternoon to night time (i figured it was cos that's when the girls got home and i started being alot more active..)

ANYWAYS.. this arvo while having a sleep i had the bad pains again with back pain, weird.

OK here's the TMI TMI part.. at work tonight kept feeling that i was having heavy loss. went to loo at dinner time and passed a few largeish clots.. kinda length and width of finger like,, then went to put underwear back on and passed another.. i have kept this (wrapped in pad, and then stuck in a specimen jar when i got home tonight)   It looks like a placenta, seriously, is about the size of two $2 coins joint, with vessels coming out of it, just like a placenta..with a kinda jellyclot thing attached to it at the other end.. like it was a baby or something, only a couple of centimetres long, but babyish shaped. it freaked me out. Am going to ring Midwife tomorrow, and as i have said i have kept it and put it in a sterile container.

but any help would be great.. why would this happen after a D&C? is there the possiblity that maybe it was 2 and they missed one? Bleeding since passing that this evening has been very very minimal..and pain has gone, i just feel like all that pain over the last few days was my body trying to get rid of this other thing.

again sorry for the TMI. is weirding me out and also scaring me that maybe there were two, maybe the other one had been ok, maybe maybe maybe. They were only looking for one, so after getting all that stuff and 1 baby out i guess they wouldn't really have looked for too much more if everything was intact?

am grasping straw.. and also know the chances of getting any replies till tomorrow morning is zilch.. but had to post, had to ask.

Edited by mum2paris

That does seem odd Janine but I haven't had a D&C so I don't know either I hope you can get hold of your mw early today.

Just wanted to give you a big cyberhug. Hope you get the answers tomorrow.

Scary stuff. to you.

Are they going to have a look at your specimen?

I'm glad you're starting to feel better, your body was obviously busy trying to sort something out. It must be good to have the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

My whole experience was pretty bad. when i first went for the scan they basically just told me that there were two babies but they were underdeveloped for my dates and that i had to wait a week. when that next scan came round I got back to the room after having it and a nurse came in and said ok so do you want to have a d&c or would you prefer to wait and see if things happened naturally. I had to ask if that meant the babies hadnt survived and was only then told that no they hadnt. I decided on a d&c and was then asked if i wanted to keep my 'unwanted products of conception' (oh we have to call it that, she said) felt like screaming at her that they were wanted they just didnt want me. And i saw my midwife the day i went for the first scan, only because she was already in the hospital seeing someone else but didnt see her again, got one phone call after and that was it, basically left to just get on with life.

Gosh that does sound odd Janine.

Im not sure how that could happen, as a D &C is meant to clean out the entire inside of all its contents, and you would have to wonder how a fetus and placenta would be missed, but as you say, if you are only looking for one, then thats all you find... But wouldnt it have shown up on your scans you had to check the heartbeat? Surely so...

Im no expert at this, but you know what it looked like, and with your job are probably the most qualified to know what that looks like.

Im sorry to hear that you havent had much support from the MW, its sad to think you just get left now. When I had my MC I was still early on and so still with the GP, she was pretty good, but a little too 'oh weel, it happens' about it all if you know what I mean. Best of luck finding out the answers, and I would push for the 'clot' to be examine by someone, you never know. At least then you wouldnt have the nagging in the back of your mind.

I was lucky to have gone home the same day, and after theatre went to the transit lounge to recover.. where my old charge nurse from the unit now works.. so she was great got me a muffin etc. lol would have been nice to see her in different circumstances though.