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

I am in the EXACT same position. At 12 weeks I had some spotting. I went to the doctor and found my baby no longer had a heartbeat, and had stopped growing at eight weeks.
I had horrible pains the next morning and was able to pass tissue. The pain got worse, but i wasnt passing anything else. I went to the hospital where they told me the placenta was all that was left to pass. It is very much like labor. You just have to wait for your cervix to dialate enough before you can pass it.
I have been in "misscarriage labor" for four days.
Hope that helps.

I am going for an ultrasound in an hour.....I am 6 weeks....I had some spotting the other day and then cramping so I went to the er.....the baby had a strong heart beat 155 and everything was in place......2 hours after I got home I had horrible pain and passed something, it looked to me like a small placenta......my levels then were 2500 and today they are 300.....my friend keeps trying to convince me that it was a twin that I passed......I can only be hopeful! So in a couple of hours I will know if baby is there or not........it is odd to read everyone's stories....they are all different in their own little way....I just want to compare mine to others and get some relief, but that hasn't happened :( this really sucks!

I am 19 and I had a miscarriage in April 25th. It wasnt planned but I got excited the motherly instinct. The day I turned 12 weeks I was to go have my first ultrasound, one hour before I went I felt something drop in my pants, I went to the bathroom and there was a clot and blood,I started cryin then rushed to the ER cause I thought they could stop it. Went to my first ultra sound and waited for its heartbeat and I had already passed it. was in the hospital for 3 days. I still cry cause I got attached to someone I never seen or heard..

Rebekah I know how you feel. I'm 21. My pregnancy wasnt planned either, but I was so excited. I felt as if I was meant to be a mom at that point even though it sounds crazy. I was seven weeks last Wednesday when I started spotting. I'm not religious, but I never prayed so much. To make matters worse, I was on vacation in Mexick when it happened. I didn't have access to a doctor or emergency room. Needless to say bleeding got heavy and cramps got worse. My breast weren't sore anymore, morning sickness went away. I knew I'd lost my baby. Everyone says "it wasn't a baby yet." but to me it was. I had already loved him/her as if he were here already. Even though this wasn't planned don't get discouraged. You're young and have plenty of time. The bleeding is still here which is a constant reminder of what happened. But just look at it as if it's one step closer to your next try and having a beautiful baby. Good luck to you.

I am going through a miscarriage as I type this my self Im about 10 weeks and Thursday morning I started to cramp really bad it was so bad I couldnt even move, Thursday evening whilie at work looked like I had my period Im always prepared even tho I didnt get my period for almost 3 months Thursday night I was passing a good amount of blood clots (big) blood clots Friday still passing the blood clots today is just brown like....I still get pain today here and there I have to see the Dr. on Monday my husband is devastaded because in 1997 I had a tubal done and we didnt think it was possible for me to get pregnant at all last December I had a chemical pregnancy so now were just trying to get over this and move on and hopefully I can get pregnant and have a normal pregnancy.  God bless you all Im praying for all of you...

I feel a lot less alone reading all of these posts. I am 6.5 weeks pregnant (or I was 6.5 weeks pregnant). I had some bleeding this morning,  went to the ER, they did some lab work and an ultrasound. Basically it confirmed that I was in fact pregnant, but the baby is no longer there. I do not know if I "passed" her/him already. I am 26 and this is my 3rd pregnancy. My first son was born with a very rare syndrome and he passed away when he was 19 months old (he was amazing, and it is the most difficult thing I have ever gone through). My second son is now 3 and he is healthy (speech delay, but healthy). This would have been my 3rd baby and I was so very excited...I found out 2 weeks ago and already told my whole family...I had to call everyone and tell them that the baby passed away. I am absolutely crushed...I loved my baby already...

Hi All

I have been two weeks late with my period then bought a hpt and got a positive, a week after that i got heavy some heavy cramps that lasted like for a few hours only to find that when i went to the loo and i wiped there was this mucis on the paper with red in it, the next day i had slight bleeding everytime going to the loo but not enough to justify it as a period and to wear a pad its monday now and the bleeding is getting heavier but i have no pain at all was this a miscarriage please help?%-)

 

Im go n through the same thing i was 7wks a day after thanksgiving i started spotting i went to the er an they told me the baby was fine the next wednesday.i went to my ob an he said.the baby was.fine friday i started.bleeding an having cramps so back to the er i went they.did a scan an couldnt find they baby it crushed me i stare at the ultrasound pic an cry...im bleeding worse now than ln friday....im sared every time i go to.the restroom because large clumps.of it comes out an it scares me kinda like shock is that.normal to.feel like that?

Thank you all for sharing your stories. I came across this while searching for info on how long bleeding lasts. I was 10 wks pregnant when I started lightly spotting. Two days later I went for an ultrasound and the tech got really quiet and finally told me that the sac was the size of about 5 wks (half what it should've been) and there was no fetal pole. I was devastated. I was told that I'd start bleeding more heavily and miscarry naturally. That was about a week ago and I'm still bleeding very heavily. I haven't passed any significant tissue, just very small little clots that don't look much different from the little clots I get with my period normally. It's so hard to have the bleeding go on for so long, it's a constant reminder of the loss. And it's even worse that we can't use tampons, which I usually use for my period, because it's such a noticeable thing every time blood comes out. I go for another ultrasound in a couple days just to see if they can tell if Im passing everything and I'm really hoping there's not much more to go. The stories that done women have shared about going through labor-like pains and passing very large clots is really intense. It makes me feel grateful and a little more hesitant to complain about my heavy bleeding. All I can do is tell myself that the pregnancy ended for a reason, and that it's for the best, although sometimes i have a hard time believing it. It will happen eventually, I know it will...

I wrote the last post and decided to add more, since reading these was so helpful for me. I spotted for the first two days, then bleed heavily for a week straight with very tiny tissue passing. After that, I had severe cramping, got an ultrasound and found out there was no change internally (even after all that bleeding). I went about my day, changing pads all say long. I got home and took tylenol for my increasingly painful cramps. Then i felt a gush of blood when I stood up and when I went to change my pad I found a half dollar sized piece of tissue. I noticed some hanging from inside me as I sat on the toilet. I tried to push a little and next thing I knew I passed a fist sized amount of tissue. It was really disturbing. My doctor had told me earlier that I was so early in the pregnancy (10 wks but growth stopped at 5wks) that is hardly notice much tissue. Wow he was wrong. I'm convinced that was the empty sac that was there when I got the ultrasound earlier. I'm praying that that was all of it, It was so traumatizing and hard that I really don't want to go through that again... Hang in there ladies, it will get better. Just get through it one day at a time, one hour at a time if you have to. There are countless others who've also been through exactly what you're going through right now...

Me again (from last two posts). The day after I posted the above I had a horrible experience. I had the most painful cramps I've ever experienced. I thought i was actually going to die. It was almost as if I could feel my cervix opening. I was on the toilet passing large pieces one after another, all the while crying and moaning and thinking I was going to pass out as my vision became blurred and tunneled. Finally my boyfriend helped me call the doctor and the nurse told me that the doc would call back I could stand just sitting, so I figured we'd leave, to be closer to the pharmacy if the doc called in a script for painkillers which I desperately needed, or if she told me to go to the emergency room. Oh, did I mention I took 1000mg of ibeprofen (200 more than I even should've) and it was doing nothing. Long story short, the doctor never got back to me, after receiving three messages from the nurse to call me ASAP. I was about to go to the emergency room as I was bleeding all over the car and and in agony but I wasnt looking forward to waiting for three hours to be told to take tylenol and get rest, which I've heard is a common response to miscarriages in early pregnancy. Eventually my boyfriend called a relative who had some pain medicine left over from something and we went and got that. It may sound crazy, but I was willinbg to do just about anything to get out of that pain. I took a some pain medicine and within a half hour I was able to see and think straight. The bleeding continuied and I passed much more tissue. Since then the bleeding has slowed tremendously and there hasn't been any cramping. All in all, I think I got it all out of me. This was a horrible and terrifying experience, but the details are worth sharing so we all know that we are not alone, and that we can get through it.

I to am going through a miscarriage as I type. I went to the doctor for my first ultrasound last Thursday, 3/7/13, the ultrasound tech first said that she noticed I had hemeraged, due to the fact I had just had my daughter five months ago, she then said she wasn't seeing a heartbeat but was going to go get my doctor to make sure she was doing everything correctly. She was my tech in my last pregnancy so I knew she knew what she was doing and instantly knew something was wrong. The doctor then came in and said that my baby was measuring eight weeks two days, so they should see a heartbeat. Also, there was no blood flow to the baby. He then told me that he wanted to see me back in a week to make sure some "miracle" didn't happen. He said there is 1 in 100 chance that everything would be okay. But then he said that we are looking at a miscarriage. The way I understood it was that he was giving me a week to pass it on my own and if by the following Thursday he would schedule a d&c. Before leaving him and then the ultrasound tech said that if I had any bleeding or cramping to go to the er. I knew my pregnancy was over and I was completely heartbroken. That evening when i got home i was completly devisted and wanted to do nothing. After talking to my father, stepmother, mother, and my fiancé I called the doctor to ask if I could go ahead with the d&c. As horrible as it might sound, I knew my baby was gone and I have a five month old baby I have to care for. Being so depressed knowing I am caring a dead baby I felt I wasn't going to be able to be the mother I should be. The nurse I spoke to said that I would have to wait because that was the doctors orders. Saturday evening I went to the restroom before bed, when I wiped there was a slimy brown tinted discharged. I went and showed my stepmother and she said it looked like I was losing my mucus plug. I then went and laid down. I couldn't sleep at all afraid I'd wake up in a pile of blood. Sunday I wore a pad all day, just incase. I only had very little spots of brown blood. Monday I did the same and there was little to none. Saturday through Monday I was cramping on and off, some were painful others were not. Tuesday around noon I went to the bathroom and when I wiped there was bright red blood with what looked like clear slimy discharge. I then talked to people who had have a miscarriage and along with my doctors advice I decided to go ahead to go to the er. I waited for over an hour to get into a room and then 45 min before anyone even came to check my vitals. Then about 30 min later a doctor came in. She checked me and checked my cervics. She said that my cervics was closed but it looks my miscarriage had started and it would only get worse but they were sending me home. I asked what I could do about the pain, she said to take Motrin. I had been taking Motrin the last few days and it didn't help at all. I was very disappointed in this. The only thing they did was heck my blood pressure and temperature, no ultrasound or anything. When I got home my mother gave me a pain pill which helped somewhat. Since I had seen the bright red blood earlier I hadn't bleed anymore. It's not 3:00am and I just went to the restroom and wiped and there was brown/reddish blood. I am in horrible pain and overly depressed, I can not sleep due to the fact that I know what's coming. I just want this to be over with. I'm calling my doctor first thing in the morning to see if I can go ahead and get a d&c. If I have to pass this baby naturally I will be mentally screwed up having to see everything. That might be selfish but I can't change what's going to happen and waiting is just agonizing. I need to have this happen so I can work on getting back to being happy so my daughter doesn't see me upset. I need to get on with my life.. Sorry this is so long but I needed to tell someone who can understand and possibly help someone going through the same thing. I'm so sorry for everyone's loss. I would not wish this pain and heartache on my worse enemy.

Thanks so much for this post i am 34 and going through my 2nd miscarriage , the first one was 7 yrs ago and went real quick , i woke up spotting by mid day i was at my local e.r. and by evening i had passed what the nurse said was the fetus . i went home that evening had some cramping and bleading like a period. However this one has been so differ. that my nerves are on edge i stared spotting on a sun . evening went to e.r. on monday they said my hgc levels were way to low and that i was most likely miscarriageing since they could not see anything on ultra sound. they gave me a paper to have blood work done in 3 days i went for that and the number had dropped from 400 the night of my e.r. visit down to 137 however it was too high so i am scheduled for my dr. on monday up untill today so 7 days later i had only spotted brown and redish but this morning my cramps became more intence and i started bleeding a little heavier and did pass 2 maybe dime and nikle size clots i am assuming this was part of the fetus but not sure as my last miscarriage was over with in one day , so i have been a wreck not knowing if it is stuck or why it is takeing so long and if my body can safely do this on its own then i do not want a d.n.c i have been told they are very painful . so reading all these post have helped me know that what is going on with me my be normal and every ones body may react a little differ. and not evey miscarriage is the same .

Hi Ladies, I am currently experiencing my second miscarriage in just over a year. I think each experience is different to the last. I am nearly 34 and have no children.MC#1 April 2012: My first miscarriage, I was close to eleven weeks. I still had pregnancy symptoms but only sore nipples. My husband and I had sex and I noticed spotting of brown blood afterwards. Anyway, the spotting never got too bad, however - and I warn I will be open here - the smell was horrific. The blood was really gritty, like gravy mixed with a tiny bit of oil. The smell was something I can not explain, and I have never forgotten it. A scan revealed just the sac and fetal pole. Anyway, it took 5 weeks for the bleeding, and the fowl smell to stop. I was very concerned, but the ob was satisfied with how I was going with the miscarriage. Anyway, I ended up in hospital after from a recurrence of a disease caused aHUS - that I believe was triggered by the 'products of conception' that I believe had caused an infection (aHUS is very rare and can be triggered by infection, pregnancy, certain drugs). So I underwent many months of life saving plasma exchange, and I still need to have it each fortnight to stop the aHUS recurring.MC#2 April 2013: The second miscarriage..the pregnancy started off with hope yet anxiety. I had sore swollen breasts and then all of a sudden, the next day, they were back to the normal small and non tender self. That was at 5 weeks. I had a strong feeling then, but i was still hopeful. My HCG continued to rise and was over 6000 at 6 and 1/2 wks, I had also started spotting light brown, and then light pink. My HCG had only risen by about 300 over the weekend, so straight away, what I already knew was confirmed. The nurses and doctor were much more hopeful than I was. At 7 weeks I had a scan and it only showed the yolk sac. The scan also showed an area with a volume of blood. There had been no development since about wk 5. I think the morning I woke up with no breast symptoms, correlated with the 5 wk date on the scan.. So today, I would have been 7w 5d. Last night at 7w 4d, I started cramping. The cramps would come in waves. Through the night, I passed several large clots and bled through 2 pads. Today, I am getting the same cramps I had last night before I passed the clots, and I feel as though I will pass more. I am bleeding a fair bit too - much more than a usual period, and I can't say I have ever had camps like this. The pain sometimes makes me feel nauseated.So both my miscarriages have been completely different. It does seem that with the second one my body seems to be expelling the products of conception more readily than the last.I feel very sad that I haven't had a baby yet, but I have faith that my body knows what's best, and only wants to bring the healthiest of babies into the world. I feel for all that go through pregnancy lost. This is such a personal thing, that you feel like you can only truly relate to others that have had the experience. I have been very quiet with the second miscarriage. The first one, I dealt with so much insensitivity.I  really hope, that we will all get to experience the joy of a full pregnancy, and that of being a mother. Hugs :)

hi iam going through a miscarriage now, i did a preg test three days ago, and realised i was 8 weeks pregnant, then the very next day i started having cramps and lower back pain, before i knew what was happening, i was bleeding, started bleeding wednesday night with clots, and today, the bleeding seem to have stopped, but the cramps, is still so painfull, i think the feotus is still in there, i do not want to go to the emergency, cus i have a two year old i have no one to babyseat her while i go, so iam hoping this stops soon, can some one tell me what to do to? my fiance will be here monday, only then can i go see my doctor, hopefully dis is over before them.