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What Causes Sudden Heavy Bleeding Along With Stomach Pain During Pregnancy?
I am 10 weeks pregnant and last sunday had a sudden gush of blood and bled all day along with some really bad pain in my stomaChe, it quit the next day. I have not started my appointments with a midwife yet. Every hospital told me they Could not get me in fast enough to just go to the ER. We live over an hour away so i didn t go. I am still waiting anxiously....Do you think I am alright sinCe the bleeding is gone now? Or should I still go to the ER?
Mon, 29 Feb 2016
Hallow Dear,
Heavy bleeding with abdominal pain at 10 weeks of pregnancy is not a good sign. There is a great risk that baby might have been jeopardized. If you have not expelled out the baby during the bleeding you had, you should confirm its safety by ultrasonography.
Usually, early pregnancy bleeding - diagnosed as threatened abortion is very difficult to salvage when associated with pain. Urine pregnancy test will not give any information about viability of the baby since it requires about a week or more for these tests to become negative after the baby has become non-viable.
Please report to your Obstetrician or Emergency Room ASAP. If you cannot do that, please get ultrasonography done to find out the status of the baby. Till that restrict yourself to the bed. If the baby is non-viable, you may have to undergo termination of pregnancy without delay to prevent complications like infection, heavy bleeding due to clotting defects (DIC) or due to incomplete abortion, etc.
Waiting anxiously at home is not going to help you, it may worsen the situation.
I hope you got the message.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
Heavy bleeding with abdominal pain at 10 weeks of pregnancy is not a good sign. There is a great risk that baby might have been jeopardized. If you have not expelled out the baby during the bleeding you had, you should confirm its safety by ultrasonography.
Usually, early pregnancy bleeding - diagnosed as threatened abortion is very difficult to salvage when associated with pain. Urine pregnancy test will not give any information about viability of the baby since it requires about a week or more for these tests to become negative after the baby has become non-viable.
Please report to your Obstetrician or Emergency Room ASAP. If you cannot do that, please get ultrasonography done to find out the status of the baby. Till that restrict yourself to the bed. If the baby is non-viable, you may have to undergo termination of pregnancy without delay to prevent complications like infection, heavy bleeding due to clotting defects (DIC) or due to incomplete abortion, etc.
Waiting anxiously at home is not going to help you, it may worsen the situation.
I hope you got the message.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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