Medical termination at 9 weeks 6 days.

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Hi

Not really sure why im posting, maybe i just need someone to talk to. I found out at 7 weeks and 6 days i was pregnant. Me and my partner are 26, still live at home with our parents, in debt and have no savings. We've decided on a termination due to just being so financially unstable its really just not ideal to bring a baby into it all. I feel so guilty because ive always been so against abortions and i absolutely love babies but i just cant have a baby right now. We're due to collect the tablets Wednesday and take the 2nd lot Thursday. Im absolutely terrified. Has anyone had a medical termination at 9 weeks 6 days and can tell me how it was for you? Did you take them orally or vaginally? When did you take the codeine, ibuprofen and paracetamol? I know the choice is the right choice but i am concerned if it will affect me mentally after. I also have a prolapse so im slightly concernee about inserting them vaginally but ive heard you get less side affects.

I haven’t been in quite the same position as you as I did not choose to terminate the pregnancy but after a missed MC this year, we had to have medical management (baby was measuring 10 weeks). I have to be honest and say the process was really not pleasant physically as well as emotionally. The tablets were taken vaginally at first and then orally after that. The cramps were awful and so they gave me codeine after a couple of hours. I ended up in overnight as everything wasn’t removed but hopefully that doesn’t happen to you as it doesn’t for most people. You will have to see everything that you pass so you will actually see the baby. That was emotionally very hard.

On a side note, be sure you have made the right decision. At 26 you are not so young to have a child and people always figure it out. When you eventually want to have a child in the future, if you were to struggle to conceive quickly or it ended in a miscarriage, you may eventually regret this decision. Obviously I hope that doesn’t happen for you!

Anyone?

Hi.

Thanks for the reply. The thing is im not sure how it would work out for us when we have no money, in debt and nowhere to live. I dont see any other solution to be honest. I dont think it would be fair for us to bring a baby into the world when we have nothing to give it.