How long does the actual miscarriage last, a day? a week?

I just started light spotting Tuesday, Wednesday i started cramping with back pain and more spotting so i called and went to the docotor right away. They found no heart beat and said i was in the process of miscarrying. Friday i got horrible contraction pains for about four hours, passed two large and sone small clots and obce the clots were out the contractiin pains are gone and i just feel like in on my period. I was supposed to be eight weeks but the doctor said it never grew past five. Im sorry for your loss. My fiance and i are going to try again soon!! Keep your head up!!

These posts have been really useful to me. I am experiencing a miscarriage as I type. I went for my first ultrasound 3 days ago when I was 11 weeks. That morning I was spotting a pinkish colour. At the ultrasound the tech said she didn't see anything, but couldn't tell me anything. I got home very confused because I had my first doctors apt a week prior where the doctor confirmed how far I was and checked the heartbeat (heard it faintly, it was still too early). I continued to spot all that day/evening, the next morning my doctor called me to say he recieved the ultrasound information and that the baby was still in the uterous, but was only 2.8 cm. So just over an inch. He didn't tell me how many weeks it grew to, or when it died. Oh, and to add that morning I woke up at 6am with sevear cramping, and that's when I knew it was happening. he told me it was so small I could have a natural miscarriage. All the day I was having contractions atleast every two minutes. It felt like there was a gnawing in my stomach for atleast 18 hours (most painful thing I've been through). The next day which is today the doctor called me in the morning, I told him I was having the mc, he told me if the pain or bleeding got too bad to go to te ER, but by this point it isn't even half as bad as yesterday. Yesterday I had some clotting, but today it's heavier bleeding. I called telehealth and explained my situation, the nurse told me it sounded like my body was doing fine getting rid of the forign object and just to go to the doctors for a check up in a few days to make sure all the tissue is gone. Tylenol has been helping me, but I was in no way ready for what I been going through, I had NO idea how much pain I would be in. I hope the bleeding and contractions stop soon. I just want this to be over with and move on and try again in a few months. We planned this and it would have been our first baby. It's a sad time. Best of luck to everyone.

I am currently going through a miscarriage now, this is my second one the first time I was 18weeks with a little girl, and I had a really bad kidney infection. This time I'm only 5 weeks and we (my sons father)just found out I was pregnant last week. This has to be the hardest thing to go through my first miscarriage lasted about 2-3 days. I went to the ER with heavy bleeding mild contractions, they sent me home that night the next morning I went back, I had my little girl that afternoon the same day my son turned 2yrs old. This is really discouraging I want another baby but I'm scared that i'll keep having miscarriages. My son was born pretty healthy even though I was high risk pregnancy, my daughter was healthy and since I was only 18weeks there was nothing they could do to save her. I have been having this miscarriage for about 2 1/2 days now and I just want it to be over.

I'm so sorry you went thru this- I can totally relate. I lost the baby last week while on vacation. The feelings are something I never wish upon anyone. My husband helped a lot, once I told some people it helped too. I felt like I had done something wrong or not done something I should have. I got drunk about 3 weeks before (which i never do!) and I kept blaming myself for that. No matter what anyone said I kept beating myself up. I also prayed several times a day that it would be healthy and I would be okay. I hope time will heal us and we can have a healthy baby soon. Gosh, I hope so. Good luck and keep your chin up- you are your hardest critique.

My miscarriage has lasted almost a full month. i began bleeding on 09/08/13. I've been getting my Beta HCG level taken each week in the lab and it's been slowly getting down to zero. It's Saturday (10/05/13) today and I finally got down to A 3. So, my cycle should begin to start over soon. I was told to wait until after my next period to begin trying again but I'm hopeful that I'll ovulate in a week or two...so my hubby and I will definitely be trying ASAP. This waiting...................is HORRIBLE torture!! I loved that baby already (my last AF was 09/01/13) and have been mourning the loss in strange ways ever since (eating too much, drinking, crying at random times. etc.) but I'm normally a happy person who chooses not to dwell on things that I can't change, so hopefully I'll get past this soon. My hubby and I want a baby together. He's the step-dad of my 14 yr old son right now. Life is great, but a new baby would make life so much better.

Sorry, in my previous post I meant to say that my AF was 08/01/13. Not 09. And my Beta HCg was at a level 3. Not A 3. Sorry to confuse anyone.

I had a miscarriage at 21 weeks I was advised not to do it naturally but I wanted to feel something whether it was pain or not and damn did I feel it I found out my boy didn't have a heartbeat a day before the contractions started they were absolutely horrible to this day I will never forget the pain I felt like I was going to puke pass out or just die. I was sheet white faint and sweating. Every time I stood up it was like a waterfall of blood I bled for almost 2 weeks but all the pain(physical) went away after 2 days. Emotionally I still can't handle it I was so excited and so ready to be a mom. Then for it to just be ripped away was the most heart wrenching thing I've ever been through I've been trying ever since my obgyn put me on Clomid and were hoping it'll be soon.

I am goen threw the exact same thing everythink u have discribed their am haven wasyour baby ok Iin the end??? X

I hate this! I hate not knowing, and waiting for test results. I am preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. On Dec 14th 2014 I had a normal period, then when Jan rolls around, my period was a week late. It was like an average period, but more brown/ pink discharge. It hasn't stopped since Jan 23rd. My breasts are very sore, and I have been getting lower back aches, and slight sharp pains that last a second or two in my uterus. Every day I have brown spotting. Sometimes with tissue coming out. I also had an ultrasound on Feb 2nd. Doctor said there is no heartbeat, but too early to tell if there will be development. She told me I am most likely miscarrying. Going  for another more thorough ultrasound tomorrow morning with a follow up on the 9th.

I am really struggling emotionally right now. I feel like everywhere I go there is a baby, or a toddler with their Mother. Even going to the Dr.'s with other Mom's, or pregant women being present makes me feel like absolute sh*t! I don't know. Maybe this happened to help prepare me mentally, and physically for a future pregnancy. My husband is very sad too. I just have to wait and see. 

my daughter was eight week preganant and they did ulta sound found baby heartbeat 96 she goes back the next week and they couldn't find heart beat they gave the option of dnc or let her body tell her something is wrong she has had no cramping or bleeding at all she hasn't had the dnc yet could it be that they just couldn't pickup heart beat

I had a missed miscarriage. I went in for my 8 week ultrasound and found out no heartbeat and baby stopped growing at 6wks 1day. I went back a week later and doctors ruled it a missed miscarriage. I had no spotting or cramping til 2 days before I would have been 12 weeks. I did not want a d&c even though the doctor said it'd be a good idea because my body wasn't recognizing what was happening right away. I got my hcg levels checked weekly and was only dropping slowly. I held out for natural. Our bodies will expel naturally if we're patient. I did not want to take the risks with the d&c.
I started spotting a brownish discharge for 2 1/2 days and then by the end of the third day I started bleeding pled pretty heavily. I passed about 5 really big clots...then finally after extremely painful cramping and alot of blood.. I passed the sacred after 5 1/2 hrs...once the actual red bleeding started. Once the sac expelled all of the pain ceased. Get pain meds if you can. OMG! !

I just want to say that I have heard that all the toxins from the mother dump into the firstborn child and sometimes that's a reason for mc if its first pregnancy. It's natures way of cleaning the gene pool. It doesn't make the loss any less, but the soul that is meant to be your baby waits for the healthy body.

Sorry this happened. Thank you for posting this. Last night this all happened to me as well. I couldn't get off the toliet for over an hour and then had to lay on the bathroom floor because the pain was so severe. I was crying, praying, wanted to puke and pass out too. First pregnancy for me and I had no idea what to expect.

Thank u for sharing this. I'm going thru this now. Spent the afternoon in the ER after bad bleeding and pasing out. Now I'm back home and the bad cramps are just starting.

Hello I'm new on here I myself just loss my baby at 8 months in I'm going crazy in all over the place always emotional I haven't been able to talk to anyone just been really down and always in bed crying