Your doctor might recommend that you wait to have sex for a week or two after your abortion. The cost of the abortion pill varies from clinic to clinic. Some insurance companies will cover the cost. Methotrexate and misoprostol MTX is an abortion method you can use in your first 7 weeks of pregnancy. Methotrexate is a cancer drug. Just as it stops cancer cells from multiplying, it stops cells in the embryo from multiplying.
Misoprostol then contracts the uterus to release its contents. Doctors mainly use it for women who have a pregnancy outside their uterus, an ectopic pregnancy.
An ectopic pregnancy can be life-threatening if it continues. It comes as a shot or a pill that you take by mouth.
The abortion will start within 1 to 12 hours after you take the medicine. The bleeding may be heavy for 4 to 8 hours. It can take a few days or weeks for the abortion to finish. Some people take up to a month. Your doctor might advise you to wait a week or two before having sex again. Some insurance companies will cover it. Vacuum aspiration is done during the first trimester first 12 weeks or early second trimester 12 to 16 weeks of pregnancy. Some people choose vacuum aspiration as the main method for having an abortion.
Others need it after a medical abortion fails to end their pregnancy. Vacuum aspiration uses gentle suction to pull the fetus and placenta out of the uterus. The procedure only lasts 5 to 10 minutes. You may need to stay at the clinic for a few hours afterward to make sure the abortion is complete. Some clinics will do your procedure on the same day as your first appointment. Avoid sex for at least a week after the procedure. Your periods should return about 4 to 6 weeks afterward. Your doctor might advise you to use birth control to prevent a pregnancy in the first few weeks after your abortion.
The further along you are in your pregnancy, the more the procedure will cost. Some insurance companies will cover part or all of the cost.
The procedure may be done over a two-day period. On the first day, the doctor dilates or widens your cervix to make it easier to remove the pregnancy tissue. On the second day, the doctor uses forceps to remove the fetus and placenta, a tube to suction out the uterus, and a scoop-like instrument called a curette to scrape out the uterine lining. Side effects can last for two weeks after the procedure. You may need to take off a few days from work due to discomfort.
Avoid heavy exercise for one week. Your periods should restart 4 to 8 weeks after the procedure. Ask your doctor how long to wait before trying to conceive afterward.
The price depends on where you have it done and how far along in your pregnancy you are. An induction abortion is done in the second trimester of pregnancy. This method is rarely used in the United States. Your uterus will contract to release the pregnancy. If you have a surgical abortion, the general anaesthetic and sedation medicines can also have side effects.
For all types of abortion, it's likely you'll have some stomach cramps pain and vaginal bleeding. Bleeding usually lasts a week or two. Sometimes light vaginal bleeding after a medical abortion can last up to a month.
You can usually return to normal activities as soon as you feel comfortable to, including having a bath or shower, using tampons, exercising including swimming and heavy lifting. The clinic will give you the number of a hour helpline to call if you're worried. If you cannot find the number, contact a GP or It's against the law to try to cause your own abortion. This includes buying abortion pills online. Page last reviewed: 24 April Next review due: 24 April Before an abortion Before having an abortion, you'll need to have an assessment appointment.
During this assessment, you may: discuss your reasons for considering an abortion and whether you're sure about your decision be offered the chance to talk things over with a trained counsellor if you think it might help talk to a nurse or doctor about the abortion methods available, including any associated risks and complications be offered an ultrasound scan to check how many weeks pregnant you are be offered testing for sexually transmitted infections STIs need to have other tests such as a blood test, depending on any medical conditions you have or the stage you're at in the pregnancy When you're sure you want to have an abortion, you'll be asked to sign a consent form and the clinic or hospital will arrange a date for the abortion.
You can change your mind at any point up to the start of the abortion. Methods of abortion There are 2 main types of abortion: medical abortion "abortion pill" — taking medicine to end the pregnancy surgical abortion — a procedure to remove the pregnancy Coronavirus update Abortion services are still open. And the neurologist just looked at me and said, No. Children with Down syndrome are very capable.
They do lots of things — they express themselves, they move around, they eat on their own. He said that based on his experience, my baby would never develop language, never walk, never swallow. There was a significant chance he would never regulate his own breathing. He would never reach for or see objects. After all those tests, they were so reluctant to give us any guidance. Or we refer you to this clinic in Colorado. It was a fairly easy decision. My husband and I just sort of looked at each other, and I told them to call the clinic.
It was not really a question for me. On preparing for a third-trimester abortion. We were lucky: Logistically arranging our travel was not as difficult as it could have been. A very close friend of mine was able to stay with our kids until my mother-in-law could come stay with them. But really what made this choice possible for us was money. We were fortunate enough to have family who helped and savings to wipe out, to do this.
I cried in the kitchen; I cried in the laundry room. I cried in the car. We told him the truth, using child-friendly terminology. Our son was sad for about five minutes. From what I understand, it comes and goes for him. Can we have a birthday party for him this year, because someone good left the world and we should remember that? On beginning the abortion. The flight was sad; I got up and cried in the bathroom a lot.
Someone on the bus from the airport to the car rental place asked when the baby was due. I just never thought it would be like this. My abortion happened over four days. I remember it was raining. It was a big storm. And I was really glad about that, actually — I thought that it would have been hateful if it were sunny. There are a lot of security complications, on top of the financial burden, that make it tough for this clinic to renovate.
That was piled on top of everything about losing the baby. They have a social worker to hold your hand, and a nurse to be a nurse.
Then the chemical was injected. It was similar to an amnio — a long needle into the uterus. The doctor missed, the first time. No one talked about it. I mean, he was trying to hit a moving target that he could only see on what must have been a year-old ultrasound machine. But what was so hard about it, for me, was the baby had woken up. That was really, really hard. It goes against every human instinct, to lie there and let someone do that.
I just remember thinking, Go to sleep. I think the fact that I believed that and still do, helps. That this was the best of all possible decisions. But it was still really fucked. The doctor did get it the second time. It was very fast. He kicked once, after the shot. That was the last time I felt anything. I went to the recovery room, and I cried for a while. I was in a lot of pain when my husband and I left the clinic, which makes sense — someone had just shoved a needle through my abdominal wall three times.
We left; I had a couple drinks, then went to sleep. On the second and third days.
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