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Send to: is required Error: This is required Error: Not a valid value. Go to the Emergency Department if: you are bleeding very heavily soaking more than 2 pads per hour or passing clots larger than golf balls you have severe pain in your tummy or shoulder you have a fever a temperature above 38 degrees C you are dizzy, fainting or feel like fainting you notice fluid coming from your vagina that smells bad you have diarrhoea or pain when you have a bowel motion do a poo Miscarriage is a very unfortunate and sad outcome of pregnancy that takes a significant emotional and physical toll on a woman.
What might I feel during a miscarriage? What happens during a miscarriage? What might I see during a miscarriage? At 8 weeks The tissue you pass may look dark red and shiny — some women describe it as looking like liver.
At 10 weeks The clots that are passed are dark red and look like jelly. At 12 to 16 weeks If you miscarry now, you might notice water coming out of your vagina first, followed by some bleeding and clots. From 16 to 20 weeks This is often called a 'late miscarriage'.
After the miscarriage You will have some cramping pain and bleeding after the miscarriage, similar to a period. More information Read more about miscarriage here: Miscarriage Types of miscarriage What are the signs of miscarriage? How miscarriage is treated Your health after a miscarriage What happens after a miscarriage Emotional support after miscarriage Fathers and miscarriage Call Pregnancy, Birth and Baby on , 7am to midnight AET , to speak to a maternal child health nurse for advice and emotional support.
Back To Top. Miscarriage Miscarriage Despite being common and widespread, miscarriage can be a heartbreaking experience — with up to one in five pregnancies ending before week A miscarriage can be a time of great sadness for the father as well as the mother.
Find out what the signs of miscarriage are and advice on what you should do. It can take time to recover to full health after a miscarriage. There are a number of things you may need to consider after a miscarriage. Call us and speak to a Maternal Child Health Nurse for personal advice and guidance. Need further advice or guidance from our maternal child health nurses? Support for this browser is being discontinued for this site Internet Explorer 11 and lower We currently support Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
In the case of a missed miscarriage, a drug can be given to stimulate these contractions. Indeed, 70 percent of miscarriages in the first trimester, and 20 percent in the second trimester, result from chromosomal abnormalities that make the fetus incompatible with life. Save Pin FB More. By Andrea Dashiell and Nicole Harris. Be the first to comment! No comments yet. Close this dialog window Add a comment.
Add your comment Cancel Submit. There are different tests your doctor can run to determine a miscarriage. Your doctor will check your cervix during a pelvic examination. Your doctor might perform an ultrasound to check the fetal heartbeat. A blood test can look for the pregnancy hormone. There is still a viable pregnancy present. An inevitable miscarriage is when your cervix is dilated and your uterus is contracting.
You may already be passing some of the pregnancy tissue vaginally. This is a miscarriage already in progress. Your body releases some fetal tissue, but some of the tissue remains in your uterus.
During a missed miscarriage, the embryo has died, but the placenta and embryonic tissue remain in your uterus. You may not have any symptoms, and the diagnosis is made incidentally on an ultrasound exam. If you ignore a possible miscarriage, you could develop septic miscarriage, which is a rare but serious uterine infection. Symptoms of this complication include a fever , chills , abdominal tenderness, and foul-smelling vaginal discharge.
Treatments vary according to the type of miscarriage. With a threatened miscarriage, your doctor may recommend you rest and limit activity until the pain and bleeding stop.
In some cases, you can let a miscarriage progress naturally. This process can take up to a couple of weeks. Your doctor will review bleeding precautions with you and what to expect. A second option is for your doctor to give you medication to help you pass the pregnancy tissue and placenta faster. This medication can be taken orally or vaginally.
Treatment is usually effective within 24 hours. This involves dilating the cervix and removing any remaining tissue. You could also discuss having a D and C with your doctor as first-line treatment, without using medication or letting your body pass the tissue on its own. A pregnancy loss can occur even if you do eliminate risk factors like smoking and drinking.
You can choose to wait and see what will happen. This is called 'expectant management'. If nothing is done, sooner or later the pregnancy tissue will pass naturally. If it is an incomplete miscarriage where some but not all pregnancy tissue has passed it will often happen within days, but for a missed miscarriage where the fetus or embryo has stopped growing but no tissue has passed it might take as long as three to four weeks.
While you are waiting you may have some spotting or bleeding, much like a period. When the pregnancy tissue passes, you are likely to have heavier bleeding with crampy, period-like pains. You can use sanitary pads and take pain relieving tablets, such as paracetamol.
But if there is heavy bleeding or signs of infection you will need treatment. You and the doctor can discuss and decide the preferred option for you. Medicine is available that can speed up the process of passing the pregnancy tissue. For an incomplete miscarriage, the medicine will usually encourage the pregnancy tissue to pass within a few hours. At most it will happen within a day or two. For a missed miscarriage, it may happen quickly, but it can take up to two weeks and, occasionally, longer.
The full name is dilatation and curettage. It is done in an operating theatre, usually under general anaesthetic. There is no cutting involved because the surgery happens through the vagina. The cervix neck of the uterus is gently opened and the remaining pregnancy tissue is removed so that the uterus is empty.
Usually the doctor is not able to see a recognisable embryo. The actual procedure usually only takes five to ten minutes, but you will usually need to be in the hospital for around four to five hours. Most of this time will be spent waiting and recovering. You may have to wait a day or two to have a curette and sometimes, while you are waiting, the pregnancy tissue will pass on its own. If this happens and all of the tissue is passed you may not need to have a curette.
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