But sometimes - especially the later in the first trimester you are - a miscarriage isn’t complete, and parts of the pregnancy remain in the uterus (known as an incomplete miscarriage) that need to be removed.
Expectant management. You may choose to let nature take its course and wait until the pregnancy is naturally expelled. Waiting out a missed or incomplete miscarriage can take anywhere from a few days to, in some cases, three or four weeks before your body takes care of things and you resume normal menstrual cycles.
Medication. If there’s no sign of your body expelling the embryo on its own, your practitioner might instead give you the option to take miscarriage medications - usually misoprostol, or misoprostol combined with mifepristone - to help speed things along. Within a few hours of taking a pill or receiving a vaginal suppository, you should start to bleed and expel fetal and placental tissue. Just how long this takes varies from woman to woman, but most will pass the tissue within 24 to 48 hours. These medications cause some of the same side effects that you might have experienced when you were just letting nature take its course: cramping, bleeding, nausea and diarrhea.
Surgery. Another option is to undergo a minor surgery called dilation and curettage (D&C). During this procedure, a doctor will gently remove the fetal and placental tissue from your uterus. Bleeding following the procedure usually lasts no more than a week. Though side effects are rare, there is a slight risk of infection following a D&C.
Yes and doctors afraid to use it, even in this case when there was no longer a pregnancy. He just performed the D&C, which is not just used for abortions for those who do not know that...
I've heard the same, and pro-choice healthcare professionals worried about what anti-abortion laws will do for access to D&Cs overall since any D&C could be investigated as a potential abortion
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But sometimes - especially the later in the first trimester you are - a miscarriage isn’t complete, and parts of the pregnancy remain in the uterus (known as an incomplete miscarriage) that need to be removed.
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There are a number of ways this can happen:
Expectant management. You may choose to let nature take its course and wait until the pregnancy is naturally expelled. Waiting out a missed or incomplete miscarriage can take anywhere from a few days to, in some cases, three or four weeks before your body takes care of things and you resume normal menstrual cycles.
Medication. If there’s no sign of your body expelling the embryo on its own, your practitioner might instead give you the option to take miscarriage medications - usually misoprostol, or misoprostol combined with mifepristone - to help speed things along. Within a few hours of taking a pill or receiving a vaginal suppository, you should start to bleed and expel fetal and placental tissue. Just how long this takes varies from woman to woman, but most will pass the tissue within 24 to 48 hours. These medications cause some of the same side effects that you might have experienced when you were just letting nature take its course: cramping, bleeding, nausea and diarrhea.
Surgery. Another option is to undergo a minor surgery called dilation and curettage (D&C). During this procedure, a doctor will gently remove the fetal and placental tissue from your uterus. Bleeding following the procedure usually lasts no more than a week. Though side effects are rare, there is a slight risk of infection following a D&C.
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