WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2002: Re: Spotting During Pregnancy...

Re: Spotting During Pregnancy...

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:08:02 -0600 (CST)

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At Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Maxine wrote: >
>I'm currently 16 weeks pregnant and lately I've been having some weird
>discharge/spotting. It's kind of like a gray spotting that's usually
>odorless. I've had this type of spotting early in my pregnancy and it
>has come and gone however this time I've been spotting gray since
>Friday.
>
>I was wondering if the discharge could be due to me having a stubborn
>Bacterial Vaginosis that just doesn't want to go away. Like I've said
>before the spotting is gray I would say a light to dark gray ( mostly
>dark) and it's odorless. I'm also experiencing some vaginal itching
>mostly internal. Does this type of discharge/spotting indicate some
>thing's wrong with the baby. Should I treat it as an emergency
>situation?
>
>Please let me know cause I'm very worried. I never had this type of
>discharge/spotting before, until I got pregnant.

Spotting usually means blood which this does not sound like. If it doesn't itch or burn, it is probably the normal discharge of pregnancy. What does your OB think?

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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