When you have a miscarriage what happens and do you need to go to the hospital?.?

Question

Is it painful?. What do they do?.

Answer 1

this is only my personal experience and everyone is different.

with my first pregnancy, i went for my 12 week scan and they found that my baby had stopped growing at 9 weeks gestation. i had no symptoms, no bleeding, no craamping, nothing. just a sudden stop of pregnancy symptoms and i just thought i was lucky that my sickness stopped. what i had was called a missed abortion or a missed miscarriage caused by blighted ovum which means there were abnormalities with either the egg or sperm which caused the baby to just stop growing.

i then had to have a D&C (dilation & cutterage) which is where they use a vaccuum to evacuate everything, baby, placenta and fluid from my uterus. i was quite sore and i bled for a few weeks after the procedure and for a while was quite depressed at losing my baby.

im now almost 5 months with my 2nd pregnancy and all is going well.

Answer 2

First let me say that if you think you are miscarrying, see a doctor right away, sometimes they can stop it from happening. A little spotting sometimes happens in early pregnancy but you should still call your doctor and make sure. If you are farther along, it's called preterm labor and they can sometimes give you meds to stop it.

Having said that, it depends on how far along you are. I miscarried my 2nd pregnancy at about 6 weeks, and it was pretty much like a heavy period. There was a little cramping but not too bad. The worst of it was the sadness, as it had taken us 2 years to conceive. I didn't have to go to the hospital, but when the baby passed I actually caught it on the toilet paper in the bathroom, and I was asked to bring it in to the lab at my doctor's office. They wanted to make sure I had passed all of it because if you don't you can get a nasty infection. There was no way to stop it from happening, and it wasn't because of anything I did or didn't do. Sometimes it just isn't meant to be. We did succeed in having another baby a couple of years after that.

If you are farther along, there will be heavier bleeding and cramping, and if you are into your second trimester, it will be more like an actual delivery. Then they will want you in the hospital to make sure you are OK and not losing too much blood. They may also do a D&C, which is to clean out the lining of your uterus and remove any extra tissue that could cause an infection. This is painful so you would have an anesthetic.

According to Wikipeda, a miscarriage is defined as being up to 20 weeks of gestation, about halfway through gestation, and a stillbirth is a fetus which has died after reaching mid-second trimester to full term. At this point, you may be required to name the baby and bury it, depending on the hospital and where you live. Sometimes it's good to see the baby and say goodbye, so you can have some closure. It's also good to talk to someone who's been through it, there are support groups, ask your doctor or your hospital.

Best wishes to you.

Answer 3

The fetus dies and your body expells it by bleeding very heavily. It will be painful due to severe cramps. You need to go to the hospital because if you have an incomplete miscarriage, meaning some material stays in your uterus, you could get a serious infection that would be even more painful...or possibly render you infertile. At the hospital, they'll do exams and ultrasounds to see if you naturally expelled all material, and if you did not, they'll do a D&C, which is when they dialate your cervix and vaccuum out the material, whether it is the embryo or simply excess uterine lining. You won't feel any of this because you will be put to sleep. It's a very upsetting ordeal, and I hope you never have to go through it. But if you do, please get to thehospital, for your own sake!

Answer 4

when I had a miscarriage the hospital did hcg bloodtests every 48 hours to check that my hormone levels went to zero. Then I had to do a pregnancy test a week later to check that it would be negative, if the hormone levels didnt go to zero then the next option is a d & c where you are put to sleep and your womb is scraped out with a sort of cotton bud, to get any left over pregnancy out of the uterus. If any is left behind, not only can in cause problems such as infections and even infertility, but it can also regenerate itself and start growing again and give off positive results and more health risks.
I hope you dont have to go through any of this, but yes, you would need to go to the hospital, even if it was only for the hcg blood tests.
Hope this helps x

Answer 5

you will have some bleeding bright red with lots of clots. some have cramps and some pass the baby with out any pain. if you think you are having a miscarraige get to the ER asap.

Answer 6

Um you bleed really intensly, and it is painful.Yes you should go to the hospital to make sure its all out. No they put u under ur asleep the whole time.

Answer 7

u hurt really bad and bleed...yes u should go to the hospitol