Blighted ovum-is it ok to turn to medical management for miscarriage?

[ouioui]

Methotrexate is permissible if the baby has already died in the tube.

That is why I said

methotrexate (sp?) shot since that is designed to kill the baby

You can’t kill a baby once it’s dead.

I’m sorry though that you had an ectopic loss. Those are so much worse than a m/c emotionally, or at least it was for me.

 

[Chariteach]

Hi, I’ve had three miscarriages. My first baby I lost when I was on my 5th month of pregnancy. He was named and baptized before we buried him. After him, i had 2 more miscarriages. The doctor said they were both a blighted ovum. Like you, i wondered whether I had really been pregnant and whether i actually lost two babies.

This scientific article shows that blighted ovum results from “early fetal death” which means there had indeed been fetuses but too small when they died to become visible in the sac. My doctor told me the tiny fetus just got absorbed into the walls of the sac. So i say we should definitely name our lost babies, whether a fetal pole was visible or not. Life begins at conception and i believe God gave my babies a soul even if their tiny bodies did not develop enough to become visible. I named my two babies ‘Pio’ after St Padre Pio and ‘Teresa’ after St. Teresa of Avila and St. Therese, the Little Flower.

Read the article here.
humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/9/1849.full.pdf

 

[bunnykisses88]

Hi all! Glad to get to know some of you and hear your advice. I am new to Mommies of little saints and have already read some interesting threads. Hopw someone can help with this question.

I have had 4 sono’s and all come back with an empty gestational sac. There is absolutely nothing living or growing in there. A fetal pole never developed. I have the prescription Cytotec to fill. I understand what will happen if I take this. I should be 10 weeks now but measured only 6 weeks on Monday. My HCG levels are dropping. I understand and accept with God’s grace what is happening to me at this time.

My question is is it ok to take this medication to artificially have a miscarriage? Since there is nothing in the sac is this ok? I am asking as a Catholic. I want to do the right thing for me and my body. I just kind of freaked out when I looked up Cytotec and read the word aboortion. Technically I am not having an abortion since an embryo never developed and there was never a heartbeat. I know it sounds like I answered my own question!! Just need to here from some lovely mommies who have gone thru this.

Thanks so much!

37 years old
married 9 years
have a DD who will turn 3 on May 10, 2010

Sorry for your loss. I was about 11 weeks when I found out that my baby was a blighted ovum. then a week from that I finally passed him. So if you wish you could wait some to let your body pass him naturally. I think it is always best to try and let things go naturally first. I wasn’t even prescribed anything at the ER or by my midwife and things went ok.

Your baby just passed real early but that doesn’t mean there was never a little soul in there. From the moment of conception, God gives the little one his soul.

I’m currently reading a devotional companion book called “Grieving the Child I Never Knew” by Kathe Wunnenberg. It is helping me write out my thoughts and feelings right now so I really recommend it : )

God bless you and your little angel. We named our angel child Emmanuel.

 

[paperwight66]

This thread is nearly three years old!

I do hope the OP had a happy experience with pregnancy later.