Surgery

See Miscarriage Treatment.

Next Steps

Follow-up

Your health care provider will monitor you until the pregnancy resumes or if the miscarriage becomes complete.

• Avoid exerting yourself. You may feel better if you rest, although resting will not prevent the miscarriage from happening.
  
  
• Do not douche or insert anything in your vagina, including tampons.
  
  
• Do not have sex until the symptoms have completely gone away for one week.
  
  
• Return to the emergency department if the following symptoms develop:
  
  
  • Worse cramping
    
    
  • Worse bleeding (more than one pad per hour)
    
    
  • Passage of tissue
    
    
  • Fever
    
    
  • Anything else that concerns you 
  
  
• With another blood test, your quantitative beta-HCG level may be checked in 48-72 hours. The rise or fall of this level is helpful in predicting the viability or failure of the pregnancy. If the level is falling, then the pregnancy may have ended.
  
  
• A follow-up ultrasound may be done at some point.