Is it possible to have a miscarraige and not know it?

Question

I read in another question about a lady that was pregnant and the baby died at about the 9th week but she didn't know it til she went into her next appointment when she was about 15 weeks or so. Is that possible? I thought if the baby's heartstopped beating and you have a miscarraige you would at least bleed so you know?

Answer 1

You can have a "missed miscarriage". Eventually, your body will get rid of the baby, but some women it just takes a while. I lost my baby at 5 weeks, and had a D & C at 9 weeks because my body hadn't done it yet.

Answer 2

The type of miscarriage you are reffering to is different than the one you are thinking about. The one you are reffering to would be a still birth meaning the baby was already developing and the mothers body already making adjustments for the baby. The one you are thinking of is that the body rejects being pregnant and aborts the baby naturally. When your body makes the adjustments for the baby your body realises you are pregnant and accepts it so you won't go into labor.... however if the baby has a defect or isn't forming correctly then the baby can die and the body won't try to "abort" the baby even though the baby is dead. The other way the baby could be forming just fine but the body doesn't accept the pregnancy and "aborts" the baby naturally or goes into labor. There are differnt types of misscarriage and even more to them than what I have discribed. I hope this helps clear some of this up.
Momma_Bear

Answer 3

Welll usually when you miscarry, the baby dies and then the placenta is expelled. So you usually know when you have a miscarriage. But the fetus can die and the placenta may not be immediately expelled and you wouldn't know it. And at the 9th week, you don't feel the fetus moving yet, so you wouldn't necessarily know it died. The bleeding is when the placenta is expelled, not because the fetus heart stopped. And generally it gets expelled or sloughed off when the fetus isn't developing, but not always and not always immediately.

Answer 4

U def would bleed and have cramps but to some this might be just another period. I had a miscarriage years ago and didn't know it either. I thought i was just having unusual period pains when they didn't stop i finally went to the doctor a few days later and found out i was 7 weeks pregnant.
never even knew

Answer 5

my friend found out she was pregnant and two weeks later got really sick. she went to the doctor and the cause of the sickness was she had an infection because the fetus wasn't alive anymore, and didn't release itself. It's definately possible.

Answer 6

i had one & didn't bleed for 3 weeks.
i had no clue that i had miscarried. no cramping, nothing.
i was a bit earlier than that, i'm sure (but i don't know how far along i was... maybe 6wks? & i found out 2 wks later (negative blood test) and bled when i would have been around 9 wks)

Answer 7

Miscarriages happen all the time like that. Often, someone doesn't even know there were pregnant to begin with.

Answer 8

Yes, it is completely possible. A lot of pregnancies end this way; the mother not even knowing that she had conceived.

Answer 9

It is a horrible and very rare thing.. but a friend of mine had that exact same thng happen.. she had her 12 week appt and it was all good.. and then the 16 week one.. they had foud out.. very sad....

Answer 10

Yes, it is quite common. They are usually referred to as chemical pregnancies, those that occur right around the time a woman expects her period, or a little after that.