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The different types of miscarriage/ pregnancy losses.

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After my second missed miscarriage at 15 week. I read up on everything I could about miscarriages. Did you know, there are a few different types of pregnancy losses?

I didn’t realized that there were so many other type losses! So, I figured I would put together a list of the different types of pregnancy losses below.

Do you know your type?

Do you know what kind of pregnancy loss you had? Did your doctor tell you? Maybe you didn’t get to go to the hospital and it just happened?

When you get pregnant there are so many things your body may do decide to do. When I had my second miscarriage I was 15 weeks pregnant and found out my baby died at nearly 13 weeks.

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Yet, my body had been holding on to the body that was inside of me, my nausea had continued, the fatigue, and all my symptoms persisted. It wasn’t until the ultrasound that we discovered the worst. our baby had passed away weeks ago.

How morbidly cruel. A few days previously and I was taking 15 week bump pictures on the beach, not realizing my baby wasn’t even alive any more.

Missed miscarriage:

A missed miscarriage happens when a fetus is no longer alive, but the body does not recognize the pregnancy loss. The placenta may still continue to release hormones. So, you may continue to experience signs of pregnancy even though fetus is no longer alive.

Ectopic Pregnancy:

An Ectopic pregnancy, may also be called an ‘extrauterine pregnancy’. This happens when a fertilized egg grows outside a woman’s uterus, somewhere else in her belly. This can cause life-threatening bleeding and needs medical care right away.

Molar pregnancy:

If the egg implants itself in a fallopian tube, this is called a tubal pregnancy.

A molar pregnancy happens when the placenta doesn’t develop normally. Instead, a tumor forms in the uterus and causes the placenta to become a mass of fluid-filled sacs (cysts). There are two types of molar pregnancies.

The first type is called a ‘complete mole‘. A complete mole happens when there’s only placenta tissue growing in the womb. There’s no sign of a fetus at all.

The second type is called a ‘partial mole‘, in a partial mole there is placenta tissue and some fetal tissue. But the fetal tissue is incomplete and could never develop into a baby.

Blighted Ovum

With a blighted ovum the sac develops but there is no baby inside. It is also known as an ‘anembryonic pregnancy’.

Those are the different types of pregnancy losses someone could have, which one did you have?

I hope I was able to help you understand the different types of losses.

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