OldLady
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Like I said, I definitely don't want to argue over it.I'm not going to argue with you. I worked on a surgical floor and the women were all due for a D&C once the miscarrying was done, and I thought it was pretty strange that they called it a "missed" ab, too, but according to the size of the products of conception that I carried down to the lab, they may well have been 5 months or later. I am not making this up. It's not worth arguing over either. If it makes you feel that much smarter, there you go. You're smarter.At the hospital where I worked it was called a missed ab, even if the patient was still miscarrying when she came in.It is a termination of pregnancy, a miscarriage is called a missed ab (abortion) and the pic above is termed a product of conception. Any other questions?
Actually a miscarriage is called a spontaneous abortion in the medial and scientific community.
Maybe we are talking about two different things.
I made the mistake that not all miscarriages happen in the first 20 weeks. Some, a very small amount, happen after that. It could be called a missed ab in that case but I've never heard of it.
My mom was an OBGYN, my nice is a OB, my sister is a GP. All my life they have all referred to a miscarriage as a spontaneous abortion.
I've had a couple miscarriages. Every one of them were recorded and reported as spontaneous abortions.
Here's the honest meaning of a spontaneous abortion:
Definition of Spontaneous abortion
Spontaneous abortion: A miscarriage, that is, any pregnancy that is not viable (the fetus cannot survive) or in which the fetus is born before the 20th week of pregnancy. Spontaneous abortion occurs in at least 15-20% of all recognized pregnancies and usually takes place before the 13th week of pregnancy.
A spontaneous abortion is as opposed to an induced abortion. In a spontaneous abortion, it is purely accidental, that is spontaneous.
You misunderstood.
I was trying to clarify.
I never sad you were making it up. I just said I've never heard the term.
I don't want to fight with you. I agree with most of what you post. I just thought you would have wanted that information.
I'm not anymore smarter than you or any intelligent person. Intelligent people like information. I thought you would like to have the information.
My bad.
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