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Miscarriage Precautions

Miscarriage Precautions

A miscarriage can be a difficult experience. The Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center is here for you. If you experience feelings of loss and grief, we can provide emotional support.

What is Miscarriage?

Miscarriage is the loss of an unborn baby less than halfway (20 weeks) through a full-term pregnancy.

Symptoms

Some miscarriages have no symptoms. Some miscarriages may cause one or more of the following symptoms:

  • Bleeding greater than your typical menstrual period
  • Cramping pain in your pelvis, lower back, or lower abdomen
  • A gush of warm liquid from your vagina
  • The passage of true tissue (not just blood clots) or of a small recognizable baby from your vagina (birth canal)
  • Inability to demonstrate beating of the baby’s heart on a sonogram after six or more weeks of life

Confirmation or Diagnosis

Miscarriage may be confirmed in one or more of these ways:

  • Pelvic exam showing your cervix has dilated (opened up)
  • Examination of any solids (rather than blood or clots) that have passed from your vagina.
  • Sonogram (scan) of your pelvic organs
  • Falling pregnancy hormone levels, according to lab tests

Causes

It is rare for a doctor to be able to discover the cause. The following may be found to cause miscarriage:

  • A baby with abnormalities that prevented it from surviving
  • Certain infections or immune system abnormalities
  • Abnormalities of shape or function of the female organs

    These probably DO NOT cause miscarriage:

    • Emotional stress
    • Birth control pills taken accidentally in early pregnancy
    • Typical work environments, activities, and reasonable amounts of exercise or sexual intercourse
    Miscarriage treatment

    Treatment

    Because continued blood loss could harm you, go immediately to your obstetrician, or if you have none, the emergency room of a nearby hospital. Take the paperwork we provide and any insurance information.

    • Miscarriage will either be confirmed or ruled out by one or more of the tests listed above.
    • If all the tissue of the pregnancy has been passed, you may be treated with medication and followed closely outside the hospital or by a physician.
    • If tissue remains in your uterus you may need a D & C, a minor surgery that removes it to control further blood loss, You will be “put to sleep” (general anesthetic) or will get other effective pain relief for the D &.C.
    • If your blood type is Rh negative you will be given an injection of Rhogam, which prevents Rh problems in a future pregnancy.