Charlotte Crosby suffered heartbreaking miscarriage and had agonising two-week wait to have it confirmed
With two ‘plain-sailing’ pregnancies and two beautiful children, Charlotte Crosby and fiance Jake Ankers had no expectation that anything could go wrong when she found out she was pregnant in March
Charlotte Crosby has opened up about her heartbreaking miscarriage(Image: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Charlotte Crosby suffered a miscarriage after falling pregnant with her third baby and had to wait an agonising two weeks until she could get confirmation. The former Geordie Shore star had already started planning for her and fiance Jake Ankers’ new arrival, looking at bigger cars and even filming a reveal for social media.
The reality star was excited to go for her first scan, in the hopes of seeing her little one for the first time. But she and Jake were left devastated when the sonographer couldn’t find the embryo. They were advised to wait for two weeks, as they said there was still a chance it was simply too early to see her baby.
Charlotte and Jake share two daughters already, Alba, three, and one-year-old Pixi(Image: Instagram/ @charlottegshore)
Charlotte and fiance Jake were expecting their third baby(Image: charlottegshore/instagram)
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In an interview with Fabulous magazine, Charlotte said she found out she was expecting on March 3. The 36-year-old admitted that after “two successful pregnancies”, she had had no expectation that anything would go wrong.
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She had filmed the reactions from her parents and some of her friends, ready to make a video to look back on. But the clips, which she still has on her phone, now fill her with sadness.
Charlotte told the publication “Never in my wildest dreams did I think something was going to go wrong. It was probably really naive of me, because these things are common, but it just never crossed my mind after it being so plain sailing for the first two.”
To make matters worse, she and Jake both knew there was something wrong during the scan, after a “moment of silence” gave them a clue that there was bad news. When she was told to wait a fortnight for another scan, as per the NHS, she knew she would spend the next two weeks worrying.
Despite having all the normal early pregnancy symptoms – nausea, sore breasts and fatigue – a scan with her doctor in London confirmed their worst fears. Charlotte explained how their doctor, who is usually “laughing and joking” with the couple, didn’t speak. She added: “I thought: ‘Oh, f**k, this really isn’t good.'”
The doctor, who delivered their first two children, told Charlotte and Jake that the pregnancy wasn’t “active”, diagnosing her with a “silent miscarriage”. A missed – or silent – miscarriage happens when they baby has not developed, but has not been physically miscarried.
There is often no sign that anything was wrong as pregnancy hormones can still be present, so the news can come as a complete shock. There is often no reason for a miscarriage, with many women experiencing the mental and physical trauma.
Tommy’s, an organisation dedicated to pregnancy and fertility, says that as many as one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. Early ones can even happen before a woman realises she is pregnant.
For support around pregnancy and baby loss visit tommys.org
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