Every Miscarriage is Different

I sort of assumed that the wait for natural miscarriage after FET would be shorter than my 5 week wait to miscarry after my IVF fresh cycle.  Because FET pregnancies rely solely on the medications to support them, it would just be a short matter of time after stopping the meds that my progesterone levels would drop low enough to cause my uterine lining to fall apart.

Still, I was anxiously expecting another tortuous wait and was therefore surprised when I started spotting on Saturday afternoon, only 5 days after stopping progesterone and estrogen.

Last time, I spotted for an entire week before the actual miscarriage.  This time, I started spotting in the afternoon and by 2 am the next morning I had already had the miscarriage.

I knew it was coming.  Friday night I just felt 'off'.  Kind of dehydrated and run down.  No appetite.  My head felt heavy, like I was coming down with the flu.  Saturday afternoon the cramping started.  And with cramping and spotting, I told F, "I think this might happen in the next 24 hours."  It did.

I had the same intense contraction-like cramping as last time.  With each episode, I would go to the toilet and push out clots.  For about an hour the cramps slowly intensified and the clots became larger until I passed the sac.

Vicodin helped me sleep afterward.

I'm still bleeding, of course, and know that the bleeding could continue for days or weeks.  I am just so thankful to have passed this point so quickly compared to last time.  Another 5 week wait would have been too much to endure.