Update on my friend's alleged miscarriage...the plot thickens
By foxyfire33
@foxyfire33 (10005)
United States
May 20, 2008 2:34pm CST
Here's the link to the first discussion. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1519654.aspx?p=1#2_17160295
If you haven't read it already please do that before thinking I'm a cold hearted witch on this discussion! Thanks!
Today my friend talked to me more about this 'experience'. She said that the first ultrasound showed an 'empty sac' while her second ultrasound the next day showed a dead 5 week old "baby". So now she's saying that she carried around her dead baby for 6 weeks without knowing or having any complications. She also stated that her baby was an inch long...rather big for a 5 week old embryo. Anyway...and this basically her version of the events...after learning her baby was dead she was able to go home and "go into labor" on her own and told me the exact time of her baby's "birth". She did bleed too much afterwards but took some "pills" to stop the bleeding. 
She has named the baby because she "found out it was a girl" 
and will be having a funeral for her this weekend.
Today my friend talked to me more about this 'experience'. She said that the first ultrasound showed an 'empty sac' while her second ultrasound the next day showed a dead 5 week old "baby". So now she's saying that she carried around her dead baby for 6 weeks without knowing or having any complications. She also stated that her baby was an inch long...rather big for a 5 week old embryo. Anyway...and this basically her version of the events...after learning her baby was dead she was able to go home and "go into labor" on her own and told me the exact time of her baby's "birth". She did bleed too much afterwards but took some "pills" to stop the bleeding.
She has named the baby because she "found out it was a girl" and will be having a funeral for her this weekend.8 people like this
4 responses
@Modestah (11177)
• United States
20 May 08
wow
found out it was a girl? even if the gender parts were already formed in a fetus so young - an inch long baby ( more like pinky nail sized baby in a lot of blood and other tissue) those parts would not be discernible. most miscarried babies, statistically, are male. Why would they want to stop the bleeding!?! her brilliant doctor's would prefer all that wasted tissue that the body is trying to get rid of stay instead inside of her???? that blood is not exactly inside a vein - to not allow it to get out would be just begging for a septic condition.
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
21 May 08
I checked under pregnancy development and a fetus doesn't even grow to one inch until between the 9th and 10th week. An embryo at five weeks is smaller than a lentil bean....it doesn't even have actual arms and legs yet much less gender parts.
I don't even want to speculate on why she would think the bleeding would be stopped. I'm guessing she doesn't understand much about the biology of pregnancy.
@frankiecesca (2489)
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21 May 08
I read the link you provided to get the full story and it does seem a bit far fetched - I know that at that early on in a pregnancy the ''labour'' would actually come across as stomach cramps but very strong and then when passing out the miscarried baby it would just be clumps of blood and in no way resemble a child. Hope this helps x
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
21 May 08
Boy does this story get weirder and weirder as it goes along. However it reminds me of an aquaitance (wouldn't call her a freind she was a coworker who would hang around at my house all the time but I just wouldn't consider her a true friend)of mine she was always having miscarriages. Of course she could never prove any of these miscarriages and the details of them were so farfetched, much like your friends, that no one believed her. She was doing it for attention. Well she finally did have two children and didn't take care of them so they were removed from her care and placed with her brother and his wife. But it seems her need for attention was so great that she would make up these fantasy miscarriages all the time. She was married for less than a year when the first husband had enough of all the craziness. People do strange things to get attention. I do think that your friend needs some serious help and councelling.
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
21 May 08
I think the earliest you can find out the gender of a fetus is around 11 weeks with the chorionic villus sampling test. If she was miscarrying at 5 weeks I highly doubt any tests were done at all.
I have miscarried at home and it was similar to having a heavy period with clotting. There is no discernable baby to be seen at that point.
Even if your friend really did have a miscarriage I think she is exaggerating the details greatly.
