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A blighted ovum means that a fertilized egg has attached itself to your uterine wall, but the physical form of the embryo (baby) did not develop. Cells developed to form the placenta and the amniotic sac, but not the embryo himself or herself.
While a positive pregnancy test detects the placenta hormones (not the physical form of the baby), finding out that you are pregnant can be the beginning of hopes, aspirations, and joy.
With a blighted ovum, your body may display signs of pregnancy, and may actually sustain the life of the growing placenta for a short time. You may not know you have a blighted ovum until an ultrasound confirms it, or you may miscarry (experience birth in the first trimester) naturally before an ultrasound is performed.
We in the healing community resist the social pressures to believe that there’s any kind of a contest or subjective measure to the worthiness of our experiences or our grief. Some of us have stated that the fact that a blighted ovum does not result in the physical form of the baby is absolutely commensurate, and may seem for some to hold an anguish unique to other kinds of miscarriage.
Finding out what to expect from your recommended birth method (listed below), and allowing yourself to experience healthy grief with a farewell celebration can be very useful and positive for you.
Please also utilize long term support services and emotional/spiritual health support services listed here in this website.
It is also very important to reach out, and tell others about your story. Please consider sharing your experience with us here and reading the stories shared here by other mothers who’ve experienced loss through blighted ovum.
We’d be so honored to learn from you and to cry with you.
Birth Methods:
Below are photos of what you might expect to see or your blighted ovum to look like:
