If your period is usually regular and you experience brown vaginal discharge after a delayed period, this may not necessarily mean that you are pregnant, but it may be a brown discharge or vaginal bleeding before your period. If the pregnancy is confirmed positive after testing with early pregnancy test paper and brown discharge appears, it is time to consider whether there is a pre-miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy is the most frightening, so you must go to the hospital and have blood drawn several times to compare human chorionic gonadotropin to see if ectopic pregnancy is more likely. If your period is more than 7 days old, this is the time to go to the hospital for a vaginal ultrasound to see if there is a gestational sac in the uterus. If there is a gestational sac in the uterus and there is vaginal bleeding, you should consider preterm miscarriage. If you want to have a baby, you will have to undergo treatment to settle the pregnancy.