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How can you tell if you are miscarrying?

My friend is 2-3 weeks pregnant and she woke up bleeding profusely. She has severe cramps and pain in her abdomen. She wonders if she is miscarrying and how she can tell if it comes out or not. Please help!

Update:

Ok, please don't let this get in the way of helping, but she is 17 years old. I don't know if that helps or hinders the situation.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    ino IM male but read this

    The most common symptom of miscarriage is vaginal bleeding. This can vary from light spotting to bleeding that is heavier than your period. You may also see blood clots, a brown discharge, or other tissue that isn't clearly identifiable.

    You can often get cramping and pain in your pelvis or back. You may find that the usual symptoms of pregnancy, such as breast tenderness, feeling sick and having to pass urine more frequently than usual, stop unexpectedly.

    Sometimes there are no symptoms and your miscarriage may only be discovered in a routine scan.

    If you have vaginal bleeding at any time during pregnancy, you should contact your GP or midwife immediately for advice.

    causes for this are.About half of all early miscarriages happen because of a problem in the way your genetic material (chromosomes) combined when your egg and your partner's sperm has joined during fertilisation. You may never find out why this has happened, but it's more likely to be due to chance than to any underlying problem with either you or your partner.

    Imbalances in pregnancy hormones, problems with your immune system, and some infections such as listeriosis (Listeria infection) and malaria are also thought to make miscarriages more likely.

    Miscarriages become more common as you get older, because egg quality decreases with age. If you drink alcohol while you're pregnant, your risk of having a miscarriage is higher. It's also higher with multiple pregnancies, such as twins. Smoking may increase the risk of miscarriage, so you should stop smoking during pregnancy.

    There isn't enough evidence to show whether or not stress is a risk factor for miscarriage, but it's a good idea to take time during the day to relax.

    Doing moderate exercise or having sex whilst you're pregnant doesn't increase your risk of miscarriage.

    You're slightly less likely to have a miscarriage if you previously took the contraceptive pill.

    Often you won't know what has caused your miscarriage. If you have already started to miscarry there is very little that can be done to prevent it.

  • ?
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    5 years ago

    There are exams that may be performed for this; they're going to discover being pregnant hormones even supposing the general practitioner can discover no different indicators of being pregnant. If it was once awhile in the past that the individual miscarried, regardless that, then the hormones can have left the bloodstream and the exams won't paintings. Also, as others have mentioned, there'll commonly be plenty of bleeding and potentially a few cramping. This does now not occur in one hundred% of early miscarriages, regardless that. As you without doubt already recognize, a few ladies can miscarry so early that they certainly not knew they had been pregnant.

  • 1 decade ago

    That sounds like a possible miscarriage and since she is only a few weeks along if she passes the baby or embryo is like so small she would not notice. She should go see a Dr. though just to confirm. but normally if its this early in the game she will have a regular period maybe extra cramps and continue as normal. I have heard rumors that you are extremely fertile shortly after a miscarriage though.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When I miscarried very early I didn't have too much pain but I had a lot of bleeding and clotting, and it was different to anything I've seen before. I just knew immediately.

    She needs to see a doctor.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sounds like miscarriage, however:

    She should see a doctor. She may have some other complications.She may need a D&C. Either way, there may be other problems and this bleeding may be masking them. She should not ignore it, especially if she does not want to damage her chance of carrying a baby to full term in the future.

    Don't take any chances of infection and pernament damage; see a doctor.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm 17 and just had the same thing happen I was 2 weeks along and started having a bad bleeding, I met with a nurse and she told me it was a miscarriage she didn't bother to test. I'm sorry for her loss =[

  • I'm afraid that at this early in the pregnancy, the baby will not be noticeable. It unfortunately sounds like a miscarriage, I'm so sorry for the life lost. Tell her to go to the doctor ASAP.

    Source(s): Proud mommy!
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