Know symptoms of a missed miscarriage

Missed miscarriage happens when there is unexpected and sudden loss of fetus before the pregnancy’s 20th week. Usually the occurrence is during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Here, there is death of one fetus. However, the fetal matter is not expelled by the woman’s body immediately. Sometimes, the process of expulsion starts shortly after the death of the fetus. However, it is important that the woman undergo medical intervention for getting the completion of expulsion.  She must be aware of various missed miscarriage symptoms. Given below are few of them:

1. Absence of symptoms - In few cases, the occurrence of missed miscarriage is associated with absence in the symptoms of pregnancy. However, before miscarriage, these symptoms are present. Sometimes, there is diminishing fatigue. However, in few woman pregnancies related hormones are manufactured constantly. This will have a major contribution to the symptoms of pregnancy. In such cases, the symptoms of pregnancy are constant even though there is missed miscarriage.

2. Vaginal bleeding - Vaginal spotting which is dark brown in color may be noticed by some women. The occurrence of this symptom is not found in all the cases of missed miscarriages. There is commonness in light spotting during the early pregnancy. Thus, medical care is not often sought by many women.

3. Fetal tones are lost - No missed miscarriage symptoms are noticed in some women. However, in some cases, the loss is learnt only after a prenatal checkup. Fetal heart tones are not found by the physician. The vagina is examined. Ultrasound is also ordered for getting a confirmation about the diagnosis of missed miscarriages.

4. There is very little movement of the fetal - If the fetal movements are found by the woman, they will be stopped if there are missed miscarriages. This symptom is not common. However, the occurrences of missed miscarriages are found before feeling any fetal movements.

Some other missed  symptoms include:

1. Loss of pregnancy symptoms or a reduction in them. These symptoms include breast tenderness, nausea or fatigue

2. Fetal heart tones are absent on the ultrasound

3. First the vaginal discharge in brown in color. Later the color is bright red.

However, confusion may be experienced by a woman while dealing with various symptoms of the missed miscarriage. Sometimes, pregnancy symptoms will be constantly experienced by a woman. These include symptoms such as nausea and fatigue. This is due to the fact that pregnancy hormones are constantly released by the placental tissue.