“My daughter had a miscarriage?”

Hi.  I'm sorry that your daughter is going through this.  I am a maternal-fetal medicine specialist so I do know a great deal about this. I always tell patients that we did survive as a species without D & C's so you shouldn't worry too much that they are making her wait.  You never told me how many weeks pregnant she is/was.  You just wrote that they are making her wait for 8 weeks.  Obviously, my answer depends on how many weeks the baby was when he/she died.  If she was 8 weeks pregnant vs. 12 weeks vs. 16 weeks, my answer would change dramatically. Since the uterus is sterile, there is no risk for sepsis so you do not have to worry about that.  Also, medically, you never really HAVE TO have surgery in cases such as these.  As I said, we did survive as a species with doing this type of surgery. Typically, if the baby is >10 weeks SIZE (not 10 weeks but 10 weeks size), then the body can take a long time and there is an increased risk for retained products of conception so, typically, we would recommend a D & C, however, if it is smaller than that, than we usually wait a number of weeks before we would perform surgery as well.  After all, surgery has a risk of anesthesia complications, infections, uterine scarring and a small risk of uterine perforation.  It is always nice to NOT have to do the surgery rather than perform surgery.   I hope that this answer helps.

Hi there. So sorry to hear this. Head over to my website www.bluemoonperinatal.com. We can do a complementary 15m call or book an hour session. I also am on intro.comif you look for my name you can book varied times. You can also book a session for your daughter and I can speak with her directly. Lmk if this helps. So very sorry for your loss. Best-Dr. Tracy