5 weeks 3 days pregnant - brown bleeding for 3 days

[Akitchen]

Hi, I am hoping for some reassuring stories as I have had brown blood for last three day’s and the hospital can not scan me until I am 6 weeks. Has anyone else had anything like this? Starting to really panic! Thanks very much in advance xx

[Bunnywoo]

Hiya, i am 8 and a bit weeks pregnant now and I had the same thing happen to me just before 6 weeks. Brown spotting and enough to see in my pants and when i wipe. I've since had some bright red bleeds too, and been spotting brown blood ever since. I've so far had 3 scans , 2 at the local nhs epau and one at 7 weeks with the private clinic. All have shown a teeny baby with a heartbeat. I had loads of bleeding with my first pregnancy with my daughter and she was fine. However, it's terrifying, i totally know how you're feeling. Despite having the scans, i still feel extremely anxious and nervous every time i go the loo. The midwives have all said to me that brown blood is very normal. But even with this reassurance, i am still anxious. My advice would be to try and take each day as it comes, distraction helps like seeing a friend or watching a good film and put down google. Really hope you get good news at your scan xx

[Akitchen in reply to Bunnywoo]

Hello! Thank you so much for your reply and congratulations on your pregnancy! It’s all so scary isn’t it. I keep going to the toilet to check. I tried to get in at the EPU but they said I was too early and wouldn’t be able to tell either way. It really slowed down yesterday but today is really noticeable.

I am pleased you have got to see a heartbeat. That’s really lovely news. Thanks for the advice, I need to try and take my mind off it which is hard though! Xx

[Hopesanddreams1987]

Hey, I think quite a lot of women experience this sadly. I had from brown, to pink to quite heavy red bleeds until I was around 7 weeks pregnant. I’m now 30 weeks so I hope this can give you some reassurance. I think our bodies and hormones take time to adapt to the pregnancy & it’s more normal than we think. Lots of luck for your scan, hoping everything goes well for you Xx🙏🏻

[Mutleybob]

Hi, I’m 6 weeks today and started spotting with some brown on Friday (5 weeks 4 days) so similar to you. I rang clinic This morning and am booked in for a scan on Wednesday. It’s so hard waiting. Hoping everything is ok for us both xxx

[Kikiwaits]

I’ve had light bleeding at 5 weeks in all three FET cycles that resulted in a pregnancy. One ended, two went on to have very heavy bleeding with clots at 6 weeks. Of those two, I lost one at 11 weeks (genetically normal embryo, unknown reason) and am currently 38w3d with the third. I don’t think bleeding means anything one way or the other. For me it seemed to be a response to the medicated cycle, as I did not have any bleeding in my three natural or one fresh IVF cycle pregnancies.