Hi I had a d & c done and 8 and a half months later I gave birth to a healthy baby boy. I was having a procedure done to find out why I was not getting pregnant as my husband and I had been trying to conceive for 2 years and my cycles are very irregular (40-50 days), before I went under the gyno did a pregnancy test which came up negative so she went ahead with the dye test and d & c. a few weeks later I started getting very sick so I did a pregnancy test which came up positive, at my dating scan it showed I was 10 weeks pregnant so by my calculations at the time of the procedure I was around 4 weeks pregnant. How was this possible? Was I pregnant with twins and one was aborted? Was the fetus to small to detect?

You may never know. I suspect that your calculation that you were 4 weeks pregnant at 10 weeks is wrong (after all, you gave birth a bit early) and so either weren't pregnant at all, OR, given the fact that the new embryo is very tiny, and might have been still in the fallopian tube, or floating around, or been missed on the uterine wall, you were pregnant somewhere around a few days to a week. The test could easily have been negative at that time. A twin? I suppose it's a possibility.

Well 8 and a half months was a rough guide. I had the procedure done 11/11/2010 and my baby was due 24/7/2011 but was born on 11/07/2011 so I was definitley pregnant at the time. I was under the impression that once your cervix is opened and scraped out, nothing could survive. But I guess you could be right in saying that the embryo was very tiny as it was very early on in the pregnancy and very well could have still been in my fallopian tube, that makes a lot of sense. My GP told me I may have been pregnant with twins and one was aborted but I wasn't sure about that one and just wanted to get other peoples views on it and see if this had happened to anyone else. Thank you for your answer, it has helped me a lot

Let's say you were at 4 weeks. It would have been attached, but would have been under 1/16 of an inch.
As for twins, the odds of having them when it's not common in your family and you weren't taking fertility drugs is about 1 in 47. That's low, so you'd take that as a 'probably not' and assume there was no little twin having missed out on life.
(Just as an aside, countless women miscarry their first month and don't even know because all they see is a slightly heavier period. There is no easy way to even study it.)

My question here is why are you concerned? You apparently have given birth to a healthy child which is what you wanted. It may be possible your OB/Gyn messed up the D&C, but that worked to your advantage. So I'm not quite understanding the issue.

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Originally Posted by ScottGem

My question here is why are you concerned? You apparently have given birth to a healthy child which is what you wanted. It may be possible your OB/Gyn messed up the D&C, but that worked to your advantage. So I'm not quite understanding the issue.

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Your absolutely right, I had a healthy boy. I wasn't so much concerned I was more curious on whether it had happened to anybody else. Or if anyone could help me understand it. I was speaking with my mum earlier about it and it got me thinking. My GP said he may have learning difficulties because of it, but everything seems fine so I'm not to concerned.

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Originally Posted by joypulv

Let's say you were at 4 weeks. It would have been attached, but would have been under 1/16 of an inch.
As for twins, the odds of having them when it's not common in your family and you weren't taking fertility drugs is about 1 in 47. That's low, so you'd take that as a 'probably not' and assume there was no little twin having missed out on life.
(Just as an aside, countless women miscarry their first month and don't even know because all they see is a slightly heavier period. There is no easy way to even study it.)

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I have had this on my mind pretty much since I found out I was pregnant and was talking about it with my mother earlier and it got me thinking and thought I would get other peoples views on it, I'm glad I did because now I can stop wondering. And there is a history of twins in my husbands family but I can probably safely say either my gyno stuffed up (in a good way haha) or bubba was hiding somewhere. Thank you again.

I think bubba was hiding. The uterus isn't like a solid smooth bowl. It's wrinkly and squishy.

It's possible that the fertilized egg was still in the fallopian tube when you had this procedure done and moved down the uterus within days afterward. It is also possible that you got pregnant immediately afterward or that the baby you had was slightly premature.

There is really no way of knowing, however I can guarantee you, having been in the OR during D&C's as I'm a nurse, that you weren't pregnant and remained pregnant after the procedure. It's actually quite invasive to the uterus and makes the uterus a very hostile environment to be able to carry a fetus to term.

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Originally Posted by J_9

It's actually quite invasive to the uterus and makes the uterus a very hostile environment to be able to carry a fetus to term.

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That's what I thought. So either the doctor goofed, or it was as you said. Since the OP is happy with the result I would just let this go.