Some miscarriages occur with an infection in the uterus. This is a serious condition that requires urgent treatment to prevent shock and death. With septic miscarriage, the patient usually develops fever and abdominal pain and may have bleeding and discharge with a foul odor.
Septic. This is a miscarriage that becomes infected. The mother has a fever and may have bleeding and discharge with a foul odor. Abdominal pain is common.
The pregnancy tissue may look like large blood clots, or it may look white or gray. It does not look like a baby. The process can be painful, and ob-gyns may prescribe medication to help with this discomfort. Your ob-gyn may also suggest over-the-counter pain medication.
vaginal bleeding or spotting. severe belly pain. severe cramping. dull, lower-back ache, pressure, or pain.
If it's a very early miscarriage – before 4 to 5 weeks – then there might be no visible tissue or large blood clots. However, from 6 weeks, it's likely larger clots will be visible. They can be quite firm and, depending on how many weeks gestation you are, there might be many of them.
The good news is, brown discharge during pregnancy is usually normal and very likely does not mean something is wrong with you or your baby. In most cases, it's completely harmless.
Most miscarriages - 8 out of 10 (80 percent) - happen in the first trimester before the 12th week of pregnancy. Miscarriage in the second trimester (between 13 and 19 weeks) happens in 1 to 5 in 100 (1 to 5 percent) pregnancies. Pregnancy loss that happens after 20 weeks is called stillbirth.
It can be hard to distinguish between early pregnancy loss and a period. If bleeding is heavier than is usual, appears suddenly, or occurs with unusual abdominal cramping, this can indicate pregnancy loss. In the early stages, a person may not have known that they were pregnant.
It's common to feel tired, lose your appetite and have difficulty sleeping after a miscarriage. You may also feel a sense of guilt, shock, sadness and anger – sometimes at a partner, or at friends or family members who have had successful pregnancies.
If it is not removed by scraping the uterus with a curette (a spoon-shaped instrument), you may bleed for a long time or develop an infection. Unless all the pregnancy tissue has been passed, your doctor will usually recommend that a curette (also called a 'D&C' – dilation and curettage) be performed.
If your miscarriage is incomplete, with just a small amount of pregnancy tissue remaining, it's probably best to take a wait and see approach. But if there is heavy bleeding or signs of infection you will need treatment.
No sex, tampons, or douching for 2 weeks.
We recommend waiting until after 2 normal periods to attempt pregnancy again. You may feel that sex will never be the same due to fatigue, physical discomfort, or anxiety. You should tell your partner how you feel.
You should have a check-up with your doctor or midwife no later than 6 weeks after you miscarry. Your doctor or midwife can provide support, answer questions and advise about contraception.
A Miscarriage Can Take Several Days
By the time the physical symptoms of miscarriage appear, the baby usually has already passed away, sometimes more than a week before. Miscarriage may manifest as bleeding that starts as light spotting and then progress to a heavier flow with clots after a few days.
You might pass large shiny red clots that look like liver as well as other pieces of tissue that look and feel like membrane. It might be painful and feel just like labour, and you might need pain relief in hospital.
In a miscarriage that happens beyond 6 weeks, more tissue will be expelled. The expelled tissue usually resemble large blood clots. Depending on the point at which the pregnancy stopped developing, the expelled tissue could range in size from as small as a pea to as big or bigger than an orange.
In addition to the shedding of the uterine walls, miscarriage at 5 weeks will also comprise of the pregnancy tissues. As such, the bleeding is normally heavier than a period. At this time, the embryo is not yet developed and no recognizable tissue will be passed along with the blood.
You will likely need a blood test, a pelvic exam, and an ultrasound. Since you can have a positive pregnancy test while miscarrying, don't let a positive pregnancy test mislead you into thinking you need to make an immediate pregnancy decision.
Miscarriage at home
You may first note mild vaginal spotting and/or cramping. This bleeding and cramping will increase, at which point you may expel the tissue of the pregnancy. During the miscarriage, you may bleed heavily with large clots, soaking a pad every 10-20 minutes. The cramping may be significant.