Regret taking first tablet. Is it too late? Please help. **Thread now updated - please read updates before posting**

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I have never regretted anything more in my life. Took mifepristone a couple of days ago. My heart is broken. I don't want to proceed with second tablets.

Has anyone done this and gone on to have a healthy pregnancy? I am beside myself. Tried ringing EPU but they are closed on weekend. Spoke to out of hours GP who said he knew nothing about the tablets and that I need to speak to gynae but there's no one there. I feel such a mess.

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Why? MN amended the title so they must think it is ok.

I think this a great thread: it's lovely to hear about OPs happy ending, and it may give hope to other women in the same position.

This is lovely news. I can empathise - I got to the stage of holding the tablets in my hand. I think motherhood has made me more pro-life and more pro-choice, I know that doesn’t make sense. But it’s a massive thing… (pro-choice wins out!) … very best wishes to you xx

Lovely update OP, well done 😊

@jayneyitscastleblayney why is it insensitive? This is the reality of women facing very difficult choices and how it plays out.

Can it be moved to another section? It triggered me. I kinda got over what happened but it made me remember how I was like the OP...regretting my first pill but going through the second one because the damage was done. I wish I had been that lucky.

Oh darling I’m SO SO happy to read the latest post. Sending you and your little son so much love

@heartbroken22 I believe it is in the right section. And the title of the post explains what the content of the post is related to.
Wish people would leave OP alone

@Curlymam88 I agree. It's a nice ending.

If someone is triggered because the OP ended up keeping the baby compared to their own situation when they didn't, maybe it means that something like this can't be quite separated into "it's my body, I can do what I want".

What is insensitive is a poster coming here an reporting a very important thread in its appropriate place.

Op congratulations I'm thrilled you got the outcome you wanted. Please let go of any guilt it isn't warranted.

The op made a choice to terminate, took the first pill and changed her mind very fiercely and ended up having a positive outcome. Unfortunately not everyone gets that lucky. But unilaterally this is all about choice. Thankfully we live in a country where that choice is legal and op got the care she required for both situations she found herself in. That's not a commentary on anyone elses choice and it's not ops fault if others didn't have the same outcome. She had every right to start this thread and many of us are so happy for her to read the update.

Wonderful update OP huge congratulations on the birth of your little boy 🥰

Congratulations OP, what a happy ending, how lovely!

One of the choices when you are pregnant is to continue with the pregnancy. OP's story is valid and should not be censored.

Thank you so much for all of your congratulations. I'm so sorry to those of you for whom my post has stirred up hard feelings, I know it's such an emotive topic but felt compelled to update as I was desparate for some answers when I found myself in that awful situation and couldn't find anything. I find it incredibly hard to read my original post back to be honest and am so grateful to be in the position I am in. I felt really sad also reading that some of you have been in my position and didn't get the s

Sorry pressed post too soon. I felt really sad also reading that some of you have been in my position and didn't get the same outcome, and do think that more information should be given to women taking these tablets.

@heartbroken22 i get it. I was exactly the same. The only reason why I went through with the abortion is because I thought once it was done it was a sealed deal. It made it easier to go through with it when there was no turning back. But reading this, knowing this, has resurfaced all of those emotions and it's painful now seeing the alternative.

HOWEVER....

Even though it hurts to read this I wouldn't have this taken down. Women need to know it so those who were in our situation can be informed correctly and prevent making a lifetime regret! It's unfair that we was robbed of this chance but just because we was doesn't mean other women should be

Yes it is incredibly painful reading this thread. I wish and dream that my abortion had failed and I’ll never forgive myself. But it doesn't mean I can’t be happy for other women who end up having their baby and having a happy ending. That’s not a path I won’t to go down, being bitter and resentful.

The first tablet is mifepristone. It is meant to block progesterone which the baby needs to continue growing/to survive (whichever is appropriate to say here).

The second drug is misoprostol, which expels their remains from your womb.

Either can fail but what usually happens in stories like we've got here is the mum takes the mifepristone, decides to continue her pregnancy/keep her baby, doesn't take the misoprostol, and hopes for the best. I've heard different statistics for how often the first tablet doesn't work, between 5 and 15 % of the time.

In these cases the result is a perfectly healthy baby (what I've seen is that the baby is fine 98% of the time, statistically the same as the 'defect-free' rate among all normal pregnancies - I don't like using the term 'defect' either but you know what I mean...)

This basically means that if the mifepristone doesn't do what it's designed to do, it doesn't harm the baby at all.

Congratulations OP and good luck to everyone in this situation!

Oh what a wonderful update, thank you so much!

Hi OP,

I know it was a while ago but thank you so much for this thread. I, myself took the first tablet 38 hours ago & also regretted it, I made myself sick 3 times around 30 minutes later but I’m not sure if I was too late, I had some cramps last night that have continued into today, I have been being sick but not sure if that’s because of the thought of what I have done is killing me.. I’ve been frantically calling medical professionals/searching online for progesterone replacements etc and just now I went to the toilet and I have began bleeding, I’ve been hysterical and this post has calmed me down a little, i’m praying so hard that my little bean is in there holding on. I was wondering, were you given any hormone replacements after or did your body pick back up itself?