What Happens During a Miscarrage?

I think it really depends on the individual pregnancy. You don't always bleed right away. I have a friend who was pregnant for 13 weeks before she had spotting and from the ultrasound the doctor said the baby hadn't lived past 8 or 9 weeks. I have also read that if your pregnancy symptoms seem to disappear, it can mean that you've miscarried, but it is incomplete, because there is no bleeding. In my case i'm having a really early miscarriage, I was only 5 days late when I started bleeding and my symptoms, enlarged breasts, bloating, morning sickness, didn't go away until the first day of spotting.

Did your symptoms get worse before they went away?

My symptoms were strong all day wednesday and through the night on wednesday, then I found spotting thursday morning when I woke up. During the day on thursday I was still bloated and breasts were still sore. No real morning sickness, I just felt sick in general, i'd been up on and off during the night crying, not much sleep and still really emotional in the morning. By afternoon was feeling emotionally better and the real bleeding started thursday night. By friday bloating and breast size and tenderness were greatly reduced, by end of day friday body was back to pre-pregnancy feeling.

But before I started spotting, the symptoms were really strong, which made it really hard wednesday night after i'd heard from the doctor that my pregnancy wasn't progressing, I felt betrayed that my body would still feel pregnant when it wasn't going to happen, it was really very confusing.

Now that it's been a few days I can say I am grateful that I know my husband and I can conceive. And I am grateful that my body let go of the pregnancy when it did. I do know that some women carry past the time that their baby has stopped growing. I'm thankful that very soon after I found out our pregnancy was not going to happen I had the miscarriage.

Yeah, atleast you know now. I'm not as worried now, but i'm kinda concerned. If I am pregnant my levels are really low. I still feel pregnant because of all my symptoms, but my test are still saying negative. Well, except that one test that was a faint positive. I'm wondering though if it was a false positive because I was reading on some website that first response has had some false positives reported. Who knows! I think I need to see a doc this week, but I don't want to go in and get tested and have them tell me i'm not. I'd feel stupid after that. Especially when I swear I am. I think even if they did say I wasn't i'd probably still believe I was. Only because i'm still progressing in my "pregnancy" and it's hard to believe your not when you have almost every symptom there is. Especially when your not on birth control for over a year now and you would have to have some kind of imbalance. However, how would you have an imbalance unless you were on bc.

Hormonal imbalances can occur naturally - birth control is often used to cure these imbalances.

I used first response and my first tests were really faint - I even dipped one into plain tap water to make sure they were working right (that one came up negative)