WARNING - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC
EARLY MISCARRIAGE

I need the expert opinion of someone who has seen this before. I was pregnant but not sure at the time, positive HPTs turned negative when my period was 2.5 weeks overdue. The whole time I felt sick and crampy and my hair fell out in wads. Then I passed lots of clots and pieces of tissue that looked like skin. Being a curious type I examined the skin-like pieces carefully. Now I wasn't sure what I was looking at and had never seen a fetus in person before. I looked up fetuses on the internet and compared with what I, well, excreted. There was a small thing a little over a quarter inch in length, with two bumps or arm buds and two leg buds (like the 28 day fetal picture). There was a head bump with two eye spots. Running down the back were perfectly symmetrical little spine bumps. In fact my little fetus looked beautiful and just like the picture perfect 28 day fetus EXCEPT for one strange symptom.

There were scorch marks all over my fetus. Its skin was spotted with tiny scorch marks like it had been burned.

Please tell me if you have ever heard of anything like this.

Since then I have been pregnant several more times but cannot get as far along as that first pregnancy. I lose it just after my period is due. So there are no products of conception for the doctor to analyze. I have started immune therapy but no luck. My husband and I are healthy and all tests, even immune tests, show normal everything. We are trying immune therapy (aspirin, dexamethasone, paternal immunization, IVIg,etc) because nothing else is left for us to try.

Lenore, I still am wondering WHAT WERE THOSE SCORCH MARKS?

I feel these burn spots on the first fetus are the key to our problem.

Thank you for any enlightenment you can provide.

IWish4BB