Frozen pregnancy is rarely manifested by characteristic clinical symptoms. Nevertheless, there are several ways how to recognize a frozen pregnancy without resorting to a medical examination.
How to recognize the first signs of a frozen pregnancy in the early term?
In early terms, a frozen pregnancy may not give obvious signs. However, an experienced woman can understand that the course of pregnancy has changed. What symptoms of a dead pregnancy should you pay special attention to?
- A sign of a frozen pregnancy can be the cessation of toxicosis, the return of appetite, the absence of hostility towards certain smells. Of course, if previously all these symptoms were observed in a pregnant woman.
- The fifth week of pregnancy is considered special. In the absence of conception at this time, a new menstrual cycle begins, which is characterized by a hormonal imbalance. If at the fifth week you notice a brown discharge, it is possible that the development of the fetus has stopped.
- A woman who measures the basal temperature on a daily basis knows how to determine a frozen pregnancy. During the first four months, the basal temperature with normal fetal development is 37.1 - 37.4 degrees and depends on the level of progesterone. Systematic lowering of the temperature value to 36.8 - 36.9 degrees indicates pathological changes during pregnancy, including frozen pregnancy.
- With a frozen pregnancy, such a sign disappears as pain in the growing mammary glands.
Separately, each of these symptoms can be explained by the restructuring of the body, the whim of hormonal imbalance, the general condition of a woman. But, the coincidence of symptoms for several days serves as a signal to urgently appeal to gynecology for the examination.
Clinical confirmation of the termination of fetal development is absence of palpitation. Simultaneously, blood tests can show that the pregnancy is developing normally. Maybe, as before, increase in the volume of the stomach. Here, only, in this case the fetus grows, not the fetus.
How can you determine a dead pregnancy at a later date?
In later terms, pathology is much easier to recognize. Just remember which signs of a stiff pregnancy are characteristic after the second trimester of fetal development.
- This lack of stirring, the presence of pain in the lower abdomen and spotting.
- The heartbeat of the child is not audible.
- Ultrasound examination directly indicates the termination of fetal development. Often, during ultrasound reveals a complete absence in the fetal envelope of the embryo.
- In the woman's blood there is a sharp decrease in the level of hCG.
- In addition, it is possible, a significant deterioration in the general condition, a decrease in the volume of the abdomen, an increase in body temperature to 37-37.5 degrees. Often, all these signs are accompanied by pain in the lumbar region.
It is difficult to feel a frozen pregnancy on time, because all the signs appear several days after the development of the fetus has ceased. To all other this pathology can occur almost at any time of pregnancy.
In Russia and CIS countries, such a diagnosis becomes an indication for abortion. In European countries, gynecologists prefer expectant management. The patient is under the supervision of medical personnel, until the body of a woman independently disposes of the fetus, which has completely ceased its development.