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Okay, I'm not having a miscarriage or anything. So chillax. Haha but I do want to know what exactly are miscarriages? What are the cause of them and how do you know if you have one and what happens after or during a miscarriage? What happens to the baby..fetus, whatever? Does it hurt or something?
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well- if you have a misscarage, you normally bleed a lot out of you pussy and people try to get to the hospital a.s.a.p. to save it. i dont know what happens to the fetus, but the docotrs probly get the dead baby out of you so you dont get some kind of infection.
im not sure.
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A miscarriage is the spontaneous, natural ending of a pregnancy through death of the fetus (baby if you prefer). The medical term for it is spontaneous abortion, as opposed to elective abortion or therapeutic abortion. The term miscarriage is most commonly used when the fetal death takes place before the age of viability, when the baby could survive outside the womb. That's generally considered around 20-23 weeks after the start of the mother's last menstrual period. After that time, the child is generally considered a stillborn baby. Miscarriages are caused by a few things, among them birth defects (the fetus has health problems, such as a problem in developing the heart, which cause it to die in the womb), problems with the mother's uterus or placenta, causing the fetus either to lose oxygen or food or to be expelled from the uterus too early, or trauma, such as a blow to the woman's abdomen or use of medications which either kill the fetus in the womb or cause a problem with the uterus or placenta.
What happens during a miscarriage depends on the cause, but the fetus dies and is either expelled naturally through cramps and bleeding or is retained in the mother's uterus. If it's retained, the mother might need a D&C, where the doctor opens up her cervix and uses a tool to scrape out the dead fetus, placenta, and uterine lining. It's usually painful for the mother and often emotionally and physically traumatic. She can lose a lot of blood. We're not sure what the fetus feels, though we think it has no capacity for pain up until about the 20th week of gestation, when neurons migrate to the areas of the brain which may allow a fetus to feel pain. We still don't know when exactly that happens. If the fetus is expelled at home, the mother can choose to save it and bury it or take it to a doctor to find out why it died, etc. If it is expelled or surgically removed at a hospital or clinic, it is disposed of as medical waste after any requested testing. I'm not sure at what point a woman can request that the fetus be returned to her for burial as a stillborn baby rather than burned as medical waste. It probably depends on the hospital.
How do you know if you have had one? First, you may have known you were pregnant, with fatigue, morning sickness, and breast tenderness, along with lack of menstruation. If it was still early, you might have cramping which starts slight, but which builds to severe. You may have continuous spotting, which escalates to bleeding. Then you would expell a small amount of tissue, which you may not even notice, along with clots and blood. A 6-week gestation fetus is only a few millimeters long. An early miscarriage sometimes is mistaken for a harsh period. It probably happens more often than we know. Estimates are that, for one reason or another, 50% of pregnancies end up in miscarriage. Human life is fragile.
I hope you never have to find out first-hand. I also found this link, if you're still curious:
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a miscarriage is when the fetus gets killed. it can happen if someone hits a pregnant girl in the stomach hard enough, falls on her stomach etc...you know if you have one because you'lll start to get real bad pains in your stomach area and you might bleed out your vagina. you have to go to the doctor and they remove the dead fetus
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