What Is Early Pregnancy Failure | Dr Rama Sofat Hospital

What is early pregnancy failure?

Early pregnancy failure (also known as blighted ovum or an embryonic gestation) is a common cause of miscarriage. It happens when a fertilized egg implants in the uterus but never develops into an embryo. If you have an early pregnancy failure, you may not find out about it until the end of your first trimester as explained by
Dr Rama Sofat(IVF Expert) .

What will happen during early pregnancy failure?

With an early pregnancy failure, you'll still get a positive result on a pregnancy test, because the placenta begins to develop and starts to secrete human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the hormone that these tests look for. 

Early on, you may also have some common pregnancy symptoms , such as fatigue, nausea, and sore breasts. Later, when the hormone levels begin to go down, these symptoms will subside and you're likely to have spotting or bleeding as explained by Dr Rama Sofat (IVF Expert) .

At first you might notice some reddish-brown staining. Later you might have cramps or bleeding as your hormone levels recede. If you're having cramps or bleeding, or your uterus isn't growing as it should, or if your healthcare practitioner can't hear the baby's heartbeat with a Doppler by 12 weeks or so, you'll have an ultrasound to check on your baby. 

You're likely to miscarry – that is, to expel the gestational sac and accumulated tissue – by the end of your first trimester, though it may happen earlier than that. The miscarriage process can take weeks, though, and once you find out you aren't carrying a baby, you may find it's too emotionally wrenching or physically uncomfortable (if you're cramping a lot) to wait for a spontaneous miscarriage.

In that case, you may be able to use medication to speed up the miscarriage process. Or you may decide to have a procedure – a suction curettage or a dilation and curettage (D&C) to remove the tissue. You'll need to have the tissue removed if you have any problems that make it unsafe to wait for a miscarriage, such as significant bleeding or signs of infection.

When can a person  try to conceive again?

Some practitioners recommend waiting to conceive until you've had a period, which is likely to happen four to six weeks after you miscarry or have the tissue removed. (You'll need to use birth control while you wait, since you may ovulate as early as two weeks after you miscarry.)

However, while you may be physically ready to get pregnant again, you might not feel ready emotionally. Every woman copes with the grief of early pregnancy loss in her own way, and some women find it takes months until they're interested in trying to conceive again.