blighted ovum?

[spanner7853]

Can someone please shed some light. I lost a baby at 16wks pregnant last year after a year of trying and spottong on and off all the way through. However this year I am just pregnant again but started spotting again. I went for a scan and they told me there was just a sac there and that I have to go back 10 days later just incase I was not as far gone as I thought. However I looked on the internet and found this thing called a blighted ovum. which means the egg didnt develop any further and has didintegrated. Could this be more likely as I still have all the pregnancy symptoms but a week later I am still spotting. I have another scan on friday and I am dreading it.

[boobesque]

although a blighted ovum is possible its quite a rare occurance, it is more likely that you are very very early in the pregnancy.
Good luck for your next scan, fingers crossed for you hun x

[applebee]

Blight ovum can effect anyone, but I have read that it strongly effects women that have had an eating disorder for some time in their life. Spotting can be completely normal if you are just in the first four weeks. I'm sure everything should be ok. Its just the wait that seems so long :(....take care, update us when you get the good news.

[maggie01]

I don't know what the difference is between a blighted ovum and a partial molar, but my daughter had a partial molar pregnancy last year which had the same symptoms. By the way she doesn't have an eating disorder. She went for a scan at 7 weeks because of spotting and they said there was a heartbeat, she went back a few weeks later as the spotting still continued and had another scan. She still had all the syptoms of pregnancy but there was no baby. I hope this is not the case for you and everything goes well.

[spanner7853]

thanks it gives me a bit of hope. I hate all the waiting around. I hope i can give you good news on friday when my next scan is. I'm still spotting, 8 days now and really gets on my nerves. I just hope there is something there when i go and this pregnancy lasts. Why are the doctors so unsympathetic??? I am married and again this pregnancy took me exactly a year. they just treat me like another person on the conveyor belt. so irritating, they didnt even tell me about the blighted ovum. I found that out for myself on the internet otherwise i could have been absolutely distraught if they told me friday it has died. I'm coming back as a man in my next life!!!