What Actually Happens in Your Body at 6 Weeks?

At six weeks, the embryo is roughly the size of a lentil. The heart has started beating, or just about to. Your hormone levels, specifically hCG and progesterone, have been climbing fast. Your body has been working hard on this pregnancy even if you couldn't feel it yet.

What Grief at Six Weeks Can Actually Look Like?

It doesn't always look like crying. Sometimes it looks like nothing. Numbness, flatness, going through the motions. Sometimes it looks like anger at strangers with strollers. Sometimes it looks like obsessively googling statistics at 2am. Sometimes it looks like being fine for a week and then completely falling apart when a song comes on.

What Your Partner Might Be Going Through?

Partners grieve too. Differently, often more quietly, sometimes in ways that look like "being fine" when they're not. The loss at six weeks can feel abstract to a partner who never felt the pregnancy in their body, but the grief is still there. It might come out as irritability, or over-functioning, or a strange distance.

When to See a Doctor?

Please don't skip this part. Most six-week miscarriages resolve on their own without complications. But some don't. Call your doctor or go to urgent care if you're soaking more than one pad an hour for two hours or more, if you have a fever over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, if you have severe pain that isn't improving, or if you suspect you might have an ectopic pregnancy (sharp one-sided pain, shoulder pain, dizziness).

A slow honest look at miscarriage at 6 weeks