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Early Pregnancy Care

 
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There are many issues that can occur in early pregnancy, the most common being bleeding in early pregnancy. Whilst this may be a very worrying time, the majority of women who have this will have a perfectly normal scan. In fact, up to 1:4 women who have perfectly healthy babies born at term will have had bleeding in early pregnancy:

Threatened miscarriage-where there is bleeding but a scan reveals that the baby is well

Missed miscarriage-where some bleeding may have occurred or pregnancy symptoms (sore breasts/nausea) may have lessened and the baby has been seen to have died on scan

Incomplete miscarriage-where sadly, miscarriage has occurred but there are fragments of placental tissue remaining. We might advise repeat scan and blood tests to confirm this if we haven’t seen your baby on scan prior to this to exclude ectopic pregnancy.

Pregnancy of unknown location- where the pregnancy test is positive but it is not possible to see the pregnancy on scan-in this case blood tests would be ordered and a scan provided some time after the first as it might be that it is too early to see

Ectopic Pregnancy -where the pregnancy is seen outside of the cavity of the womb-most commonly in the fallopian tube

We can offer diagnosis of cause of pain and bleeding up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and offer scans for reassurance. Early pregnancy complications are one of the most distressing events in their reproductive life that women encounter. We aim to provide comprehensive, holistic investigation and management to reassure or guide you carefully through the options if you are unlucky to experience the loss of your baby.

We can also offer investigation and evidence based treatment of recurrent miscarriage. We will use the most up to date, evidence based (association of Early Pregnancy, RCOG and NICE guidance) approach. There is evidence that weekly scanning in early pregnancy provides support and reassurance that increases the chance of a live birth. Whilst, this is difficult to source in the NHS, we are happy to provide this up to 12 weeks gestation.

Management of early pregnancy complications:

  • If all appears fine you may wish to book a further reassurance scan
  • If you have a missed miscarriage/incomplete miscarriage you may wish to consider one of four options:
    • Conservative management-in over 80% miscarriage will occur on its own within two weeks after your diagnosis
    • Medical management-where we give you tablets which expedite natural miscarriage to occur in the majority within 24-48 hrs
    • MVA-where suction is used under local anaesthetic, in the clinic
    • Surgical Management of miscarriage-where you are given a general anaesthetic

Ectopic pregnancy-following scan diagnosis, we suggest blood tests-if levels are low and falling we may monitor you and tubal miscarriage may occur on its own. If the ectopic is large and/or blood pregnancy hormone levels are rising, one of our team will operate to remove the ectopic by opening the tube or removing it. If the tube is opened you will need blood tests to ensure that all tissue is removed.

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