After a traumatic start to teh pregnancy, should this reader worry about spotting and aches? Our midwife offers support.

Raisingkids member's problem
I was hit in the belly early in pregnancy. At the time I bled quite a lot, but had a scan and the baby was fine. I'm now 18 weeks pregnant and still keep losing brown blood everyday sometimes accompanied with backache and stomach ache. Is this normal?

Midwife Genevieve Kingston's Advice
I am sorry to hear about something so traumatic happening to you, I am glad the scan showed all was well. It's actually quite hard to injure a baby inside the womb. If you can imagine trying to punch somebody through water. The force lessens the impact, and because the baby is surrounded by water, they will just bounce/float away from the point of origin.

Obviously it's not good to have something like this happen too often. If at the scan they said your placenta appeared to be satisfactory, I think that you are still losing blood from that original incident. The fact that it is brown means it's old blood from an event in the past. If it was bright red blood I would urge you to seek medical advice as soon as possible. Seeing as you are having pain at the same time as losing blood, maybe it would be an idea to contact your midwife just to put your own mind at risk, and to ensure you don't have a urine infection.