Understanding Post-Miscarriage Bleeding and Tissue Passage
QuestionHello. I'm sorry about the wrong category but there were no experts in the miscarriage category. I started bleeding just a little bit, mostly brown, and i thought it was just a period but i ended up passing a piece of tissue about the size of the palm of my hand. It was oval and whitish with a red blood clot looking thing on one edge. I took it to my gynecologist and she looked at it and said it looked placental. I was floored because me and my husband haven't hardly had intercourse because of a health problem of mine that affects my bladder, and when we did we used 2 birth control methods, the pill and vaginal spermicide. She said it's weird nothing else has come out of me and maybe it was a pregnancy with no baby just a sac and placenta and stuff. She looked at my cervix and it was open a small bit. She is sending it off to a lab. I have a question that i wish i would have asked her: is it possible for your body to create all that baby stuff without a baby or fertilized egg ever being present? Or did my body just absorb the baby and sac and stuff? I know you can't know for sure but i guess my main point is can your body get confused somehow and do all that stuff without you ever being actually pregnant. I had no symptoms whatsoever, bled less than a regular cycle and for less time and had no cramping or pregnancy feelings. I'm sorry again for the wrong category but it'll be a few days before she calls me back and I'm dying of curiosity. Thanks so much!!
AnswerYour body cannot simply create a baby with fertilization happening.So it is kind of unlikely that you should have passed a bit of tissue. But that tissue you passed could be anything except a placenta. anyways your doctor has sent it for histology, so you will know for sure if you were pregnant or not.
So to reinforce, no your body does not get confused and makes a baby all by itself. To make a pregnancy it requires a egg, a sperm, the right hormonal climate and a healthy uterus.
