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How to heal and avoid a D&C after a natural miscarriage tragically and unexpectedly occurs so that a hospital visit is not necessary.
I recently experienced a heartbreaking miscarriage. Instead of opting for a hospital visit and invasive D&C, I chose to have a natural miscarriage and let nature take its course at home.
D&C stands for ādilation and curettageā. It is a surgical technique where a doctor forcibly dilates the cervix and clears the uterine lining using an instrument called a curette.
A D&C is not a pleasant experience, to put it mildly! Avoiding it using natural methods is a highly desirable alternative.
Natural Miscarriage Story
I was almost 12 weeks along when I miscarried, so it was almost like a mini-birth. I was lucky that I have experienced a live, home birth when my daughter was born over two years ago. That, combined with past experiences with miscarriage, helped me to not be afraid of the process.
I was very thankful to do everything at home (as opposed to a birth centerĀ or hospital). The physical environment was an important part of my overall healing.
Unfortunately for me, after the worst had passed, I continued to bleed and have intermittent contractions. After two full weeks from the time that I passed the baby and placenta, I went back to my OB to get an ultrasound to see if I had retained some piece of the placenta.
I was also fighting a cold virus and showing symptoms of an internal infection in my uterus. My blood was beginning to have a foul odor to it.
The doctor confirmed that I had indeed retained some tissue. Later that day, at my family practice doctorās office, I had a vaginal exam and my blood drawn to be tested. My iron levels were great, but my white blood count was low indicating an infection was beginning to take root.
My family practice doctor is very natural minded and I respect him very much, so when he suggested I take antibiotics, I listened.
I hate taking antibiotics and try to avoid them as much as I can, but I felt like the antibiotics were the lesser of two evils when weighing the risks of a D&C. (1)
Looking back, if I had been in a better mindset (thinking right and not consumed with grief) I probably would have thought to pull out the natural remedies sooner to avoid having to take antibiotics. But only hindsight is 20/20, and hopefully, this post will help someone else in the same situation.
He gave me three days to pass the rest of the tissue on my own or I would have to go to the hospital.
I left his office thinking I may have āfailedā at this pregnancy, but I am sure not going to āfailā at having a natural miscarriage. I pulled out my type A, over-ambitious personality and got to work figuring out all the natural remedies that help complete a miscarriage.
Over a three-day period, I did many different remedies to help me expel the last of the tissue. And sure enough, it worked. I completed the miscarriage on my own and did not need a D&C.
Hallelujah!
Remedies and Therapies to Avoid D&C
Here are the remedies I tried to avoid a hospital D&C. The good news is, they worked!
They are listed below in no particular order.
- Tea with Dong Quai in it. I drank Traditional Medicine Womenās Moon Cycle tea. I also drank some plain organicĀ raspberry leaf teaĀ (I like this one)Ā which is a hugely beneficial herb for uterine health.
- Cinnamon. I couldnāt really find exactly the dosage to take, so I just sprinkled freshĀ cinnamon on everything I could. Note that whether it isĀ cassia or Ceylon cinnamon really doesnāt matter. The Womenās Moon Cycle tea also has some in it. It tastes great in a glass of raw milkĀ or on a piece of bread slathered with butter. If you want to be bad, sprinkle on some sugar and you are in for a treat. Itās also great with cumin on a roast in a slow cooker such as a clay pot.
- Acupuncture. My acupuncture doctor did an hour-long treatment to help me expel everything. You can do pressure points at home if you prefer. They are mostly all in your ankles and shins. There is one on your hand as well, the fleshy part in between your first finger and thumb. Basically, all those points that you stay away from when you are pregnant.Ā Stimulating them is good for expelling everything from the uterus as well as acupuncture for labor. I recommend just massaging the area and whenever you find a tender spot, rub the heck out of it, even if it hurts a bit.
- Cupping. She also did a technique called cupping. Cupping is known to release congestion and help things that are stuck, physically or energetically, unstick. (2)
- Energy healing. I had a session with an energy healer and I realized that part of the reason I was holding on to that last bit of tissue was an emotional reason. I emotionally was not ready to fully let go of the pregnancy and my body was reacting to my emotions by holding on to the last bit of tissue.
- Affirmations. After the energy healing session, I told my body over and over again to let go and release. I also repeated over and over again, āI am healed. I am healthy.ā
- Homeopathy. Both Sabina and Sepia are helpful for naturally completing a miscarriage. I did Sepia because not only does it help expel the tissue, it helps expel the grief. My homeopathic doctor warned me that it would make me want to curl up in a ball and cry, a lot, and not to be alarmed. I sort of brushed him off and then later that day, I went to a yoga class. Showing up late to said yoga class late, the only spot left was smack dab in the middle of the room, next to the instructor. Just my luck! And sure enough, it only took one sun salutation and there I was, the crazy person, silently sobbing in childās pose for the rest of the class. Super embarrassing. So if you take Sepia, stay home!
- Herbs. Black and Blue Cohosh. I had these on hand and was going to do this at the last moment. These herbs are so bad tasting that I really did not want to have to drink them. Luckily I didnāt have to. These are the same herbs you can help to induce a full-term pregnancy. They are like a natural version of the inducement drug Pitocin. Also, a friend told me that these herbs can be found homeopathically, and they are called Caulphyllum and Cimicifuga. Incidentally, herbs can be a great friend for natural birth control as well as enhancing fertility when you are ready to try again.
Itās been over a week now since my ādeadlineā and I stopped bleeding on that very day!
I have had no more pain or blood, which I am very, very happy about. With the physical process complete, I can finally start to move on emotionally.
I do hope that this helps anyone going through a miscarriage and looking for information about how to avoid a D&C. There is not very much online about it, and it is good to know that you can heal and complete it on your own without having to go to the hospital.
(1) D&C After a Miscarriage
(2) What is Cupping?
Stephanie, Thank you for this, it helped me when I first realised that I had miscarried, during the 12 week scan. I was devastated and to make matters worse, when I took the medication to help me miscarry naturally it didn’t work. I knew that I was holding on, I could just tell. I had been drinking Black Cohosh, raspberry leaf and using affirmations but I knew I couldn’t let go. I had the D&C under local anesthetic and it was fine, I didn’t feel I needed a general for it and I didn’t find it painful with gas and air. After the procedure I went for a session of reiki and after that for the first time I actually bled and passed a piece of what looked like placenta. However, when I went back for a scan to check it had worked there is still a piece in there. I’m still drinking the tea but it looks like I will have to have a further procedure. I wish I had the money to get all the natural treatments I would like; I wish alternative therapies were more available to people on a low income.
There’s no such thing as a “natural miscarriage”
There very much is a natural miscarriage. When your fetus dies it can take up to four weeks for your body to recognize it. So you walk around for a month with a dead fetus in you while you are waiting for your body to do what it’s supposed to do. So taking some natural herbs to help your body along is 100% a natural miscarriage. Know what your soaking of before you post uninformed comments Nunyah!!
I was raped and abortion is illegal in my country and you’re telling me I’m selfish? I’m 16 and I’m not ready for a baby.
What country are you in? My husband and I are in the process of losing our second and last child. My husband got a vasectomy shortly after I became pregnant. Someone like me would love to adopt and give my little boy the chance to be a big brother.
im so sorry that you were raped no one should ever have to endure that. Even if you weren’t rape it should be your decision to either keep the baby or not and no one has any right to pass judgment on you!!
In no mean’s do I mean any disrespect I randomly came across your comment, I’m sorry for all you have had to suffer.
After reading your comment my only throught is how have you coped, are you well?
I’m not even sure you’ll view this.
All the
best.
I cannot thank you enough!!! By God’s grace I found your article and it helped me get through my miscarriage, naturally and quickly…at home! me who had never had a natural birth before!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I am in the same situation, its now almost 4 weeks after a sad miscarriage and doc found I had not released all of it. It was wonderful to google and find this. Not only am I not the only one this has happened to, but your list is fantastic. I am drinking red raspberry leaf tea, doing some inner work, and seeing an acupuncturist tomorrow *THANK YOU*
I’m a little blown away or did I miss something?!!! I read comments of people asking how to end their pregnancy. How incredibly rude and selfish to ask someone how to cause a miscarriage that couldn’t stop theirs. I just miscarried tonight and let me tell you it is a very heartbreaking experience. I too was about 12 weeks and to see my little baby, his arms and tiny fingers, his legs and tiny little toes. Hands together as if in prayer tucked under his oh so tiny little head appearing to be cozy and sleeping like precious little babies do yet knowing that that was the most I would ever get to see of him that this was it, it was over. I would never see him laugh or hear him cry. I would never hold him in my arms and kiss his little cheek. The dream of seeing him grow and blossom into a young handsome man, hopefully one just like his father, was gone, shattered. The joy he would bring us the love we would give him all taken away with no explanation. AND YOU DARE ASK “How can I kill my baby?” REALLY?! May God help you.
I think you’re missing the point. It’s not about wanting to have a miscarriage, she’s asking how to have a safe miscarriage. Instead of using instruments and drugs. She already miscarried, this is info to help pass it instead of using drugs. So you misunderstood.
I believe she is referring to some of the comments below vvv and not the article itself. As someone who has also just miscarried, I can agree that some of them are inappropriate for this post.
In my opinion, Stephanie is writing to women currently facing the emotional and physical side effects that accompany the loss of an unborn child. She is aiding those who are searching for natural remedies to pass the miscarriage so they are not forced to undergo this process surgically (D&C).
Her advice is extremely helpful and I do believe “k” feels the same way as myself. What is difficult to see is the women commenting on such an article, asking for advice on how to induce a miscarriage themselves. These tips are intended for women who have been faced with unexpected loss and are heartbroken, like k and myself. So it reasonable for us to see those comments as selfish.
Sorry for your loss but there are some people who can’t afford to pay for Dr visits and already have a young child to take care of and got pregnant again on accident! How can you judge other people you have no idea what and why they are asking. For you to judge someone is wrong! What gives you the right? YOU dont have the right…
I’m sorry for your loss… but i think you really need to think about what you write before you write it, or you need a serious brain re-wiring… women have the right to their own bodies. There are several different reasons for a woman wanting to induce a miscarriage. Every woman’s situation is different and you shouldn’t be telling people that miscarrying is a bad thing. using myself as an example, i’m 19 years old. My partner and i ALWAYS use double protection. I use the pill, and he uses condoms, yet somehow, i ended up pregnant. I am nowhere near ready to have a child! i have no money and i study full time. do you think it would be appropriate for someone in my situation to give birth to a child? do you think i could support that child? if you answered no to those, i have gotten my point across. TO ALL MY FELLOW SISTAS OUT THERE, don’t let a small-minded, bigoted person make you think that it’s a ‘sin’ to ‘kill’ a baby. It would be more cruel to give birth and be unable to support your child.
What about adoption? I’m only saying this not out of judgment or anything negative, but so many woman CAN’T have children and could love your baby! Trust me when I say you will hold onto the feeling of terminating your baby forever.
girl everything happens for a reason, and u being pregnant is not a mistake and Gods will in ur life all u need to do is thank God for what has happened and ask for his guidance.God has a solution to every problem, just kneel down and tell him all about it
This is pathetic! Your saying you donate your time to full studying and school but if you can make time for sex , you can make time for a baby ! You enjoy the sex but not the blessing of carrying a child !? You play you pay. So many woman dont get the beautiful honor of being able to have and hold a child of your own when theres woman out here that shed tears every night because they cant carry . And the major of you “woman” take it for granted and just throw it away like having a baby is a problem … its a shame what this world has come too !
Well considering sex takes maybe an hour out of your day and a baby is like a full time job, sorry to inform you but no she doesn’t have time for a baby, she doesn’t have the money for a baby, and even if she were to give the baby up for adoption she probably can’t afford the hospital bill either. So why don’t you stop criticizing her when you know nothing about her situation.
God bless u, and thanks for sticking up for those of us going through miscarriage and also for those poor baby’s inside mother’s who don’t want them. My comment is a bit late, but after reading this, I shook my head. I’m going through a missed miscarriage so my beautiful angel baby is still within me, and it’s distressing. I booked in for a d and c as I want it over with, so I can Bury my baby and try to find peace. Also I’m sorry for your loss, and sorry if your fine now and I’ve brought it up. God bless you. X
Don’t throw your grief around and push it down on others. Everyone is in different situations. Some women are miscarrying and grieving the loss of their baby and some are trying to be responsible and not bring a child into this cruel world when they don’t have the means or capacity to love and protect them as every child deserves. Speaking as one who have seen the atrocities inflicted on innocent babies just because they were born to mothers who were selfish and irresponsible. Just because you miscarried doesn’t mean you should shove that grief and your personal situation onto everyone else who might not want a baby. You sound like an immature child. “that’s not fair!”, Because you wanted a baby and miscarried and this or that person doesn’t but won’t miscarry and chooses to intentionally end it. Life isn’t fair and yea, cruelly ironic. You want to make an argument against abortion, then do so logically, but don’t go attack someone with your grief. Honestly, that’s a disgusting exploitation of your grief. Quit being so judgmental. That is what is so damn wrong with everyone in this world is that no one can look outside their own perspective. No one can even try to be objective and try seeing life from another’s shoes. One woman’s situation might be drastically different from yours! IN WAYS THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY COULD NEVER IMAGINE! How ignorant, shallow, and stuck up you sound. EMPATHY! COMPASSION! Try for that!! Don’t use your grief as a reason to be selfish and callous towards someone else. Yes, maybe them bringing this up on this article is wrong and insensitive, but I know they did not come here with bad intentions. They were brought here by their damn search engine and innocently assumed that’s what this article would help them with! Whereas you are intentionally attacking these women! I understand your grieving, but still, I get the feeling that even when not in grief you are a selfish and self-centered small minded judgmental and bitter woman. You know, just because you couldn’t have a baby, doesn’t mean that someone else should! What if one of those woman is addicted to heroin and dating some psychopath who would go on to beat and torture that poor little life you were so high and righteous about!!!?? Wouldn’t you think it’d be better for them to go to God sooner than have to experience any amount of suffering?? You need a little more faith woman!! On top of practicing some perspective and EMPATHY, you need to let go and let god. Trust that HE is handling everything and that everything happens for a reason. I can think of a million more gentle and LESS JUDGMENTAL ways that you could have said something to these women about the sensitive nature of this article! Instead you choose to condemn them and act as if you are somehow better than them? why because you miscarried naturally and they didn’t? And that is the sum total of any woman’s character??? Wow. You need to not only open your mind, but open your damn heart. Seriously. By the way, I am speaking as one who has always struggled with pregnancies, having five miscarriages, two of which were in the second trimester, but God still found a way to bless me with two beautiful little boys. I hope that gives you some comfort and hope, that you too can still try again. Even though I don’t care for your attitude or judgments, I can and do empathize and have COMPASSION for any situation that ANY woman might be going through, be it a hard miscarriage, or a pregnancy that is unwanted. Because I am only human, and know that I am as imperfect as anyone else on this planet and so I will NOT pass judgment on no one. No matter how much I may disagree or dislike that person. I wish you and ANY woman on here the best. I hope that there are other’s on here who have more open hearts and will not take another person’s life or situation so personally. Someone going through such a tough time and decision as that deserves more support if indeed you do not want them to abort the pregnancy. I can promise you that alienating and judging them, making them feel lower and lesser than you, does nothing to help either that woman or the life inside her.
Thank you so much sweetie. Some one said it. They’re also abusing God too even though I’m an atheist I know that when you use God to convince other or to use it as an excuse to judge. Others it’s wrong. I’m 18 and me and my fiancĆ©e have been together for 3 years and we use protection and I might be preggers. I’m not ready for a kid, I have cervical cancer
Too and I don’t it. Adoption doesn’t help, the child has almost no chance in getting a family. But thank you for standing up for us against the closed minded pro birthers thank you
Perfectly written. To be brutally honest, in my opinion, I wouldn’t want a judgmental and close minded person raising another judgmental, close minded person. It’s a never ending circle of this type of thinking that causes and ultimately terminates the advancement of women’s rights.
Those that want to say adoption over and over, if there are so many couples that can’t conceive and overwhelmingly want to adopt, why are there so many children lost in the system longing for a loving family? Are you only willing to adopt a newborn? That also makes an ignorant and rhetorical circle. And those commenting repeatedly about “God” and how wrong and “sinful” abortion, induced miscarriage etc are, are frighteningly close minded. I mean, you believe in immaculate conception, 2 of every living thing fitting and living on an ark for 40 days, a man being eaten by a fish and spit back up, a man being reborn, then reincarnated as a bowl of crackers and a carafe of red wine, that you then digest! more or less…. “magic”. These women’s stories are REAL. They’re emotions are REAL. Laws are REAL. Consequences of not following these laws that limit our rights are REAL.
I’m sorry for those that have lost a child, I too have. It’s an awful thing. But I applaud you that have overcome it and applaud those that understand the reality of our world and believe that no one can make any decision about your body for you, won’t let others influence your thinking, and to be the best you in every way.
Hi I think you misunderstood something. Sometimes abortion is the only option. I am pregnant 16 weeks exactly today and yesterday I found out that my baby is so so sick. Intestines, liver, and bowel is outside. the belly didn’t close. In addition to it they confirmed heart defect and cleft and one eye was somewhere. Tell me please then what should I do. Let her die in my belly and then deliver her? Maybe I should do the procedure? Imagine her life??? To me she will be ALWAYS the most beautiful amazing child but what quality of life she would have? it is not about my life but the child so please don’t judge please!!!! Do you think I don’t want her to be normal??? you have no idea how much we want her but with her health complication she has only 5% of surviving. the longest time she might live till month maybe two. She already measures two weeks behind her normal physical development. so now please tell me what would you do????????????????????????
Anna, I’m so sorry for what you are going through. You have to do what you think is right and that doesn’t always mean that you should have the baby. If the baby is so sick, maybe it is better to not give her a life of suffering. Some people are so pro life but they have now idea what some of these babies go through as someperspective said. I know this is eleven days after your post so I hope that what ever you do or did, that you are ok with it.
In my opinion, some babies should never be born because giving them a life of pure hell is just wrong. Who are people to judge a woman that loves her baby enough to not give her/him a life of pain and suffering. You have to be at peace with your decision and don’t let anyone make you feel like it’s wrong. You are the mother and you know in your heart what is best. God bless you Anna. Be at peace.
Thank you so much for this useful information. I, too, went through a miscarriage ordeal and many of these remedies assisted me in my healing process. A year and a half on from my miscarriage, I still had major discomfort in my lower right quadrant, no idea if it was my ovary, fallopian tube (possible ectopic pregnancy) or my uterus. Nonetheless, I have recently been doing castor oil packs and the pain in my lower right quadrant has dramatically decreased.
It is said that castor oil helps break down scar tissue and fibrosis, boosts the immune system and is most beneficial for the liver and digestive system. There is nothing else that could have made such a dramatic difference in the pain that I felt. Intuition told me that it was some sort of scar tissue remaining from the miscarriage and this seems to have possibly shown that that was true.
I thought I’d just share some information with others experiencing the same pain and/or discomfort and in addition to all of the above, I would strongly suggest castor oil packs.
See the following link: http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/holistic_health/data/thcast1.html
Hi I just wanted to say to anyone needing this info that cinnamon the spice will have absolutely no effect on inducing a miscarriage. You have to use the pills which have completely different properties. The elements needed for this purpose are removed for the spice form. Good luck to all.
http://www.macrobioticstoner.com/ should help
Good day to you, Stephanie.
But it’s not so good for my fiancĆ© and it has been that way for some time. And I need to know what’s wrong and what can I do to save her.
My fiancƩ is pregnant. (her last menstrual was 5th April so I am guessing 4 weeks pregnant). But for the past three weeks or so, she has been:
– vomiting (A LOT)
– feeling nauseous
– having on and off fevers
– dizziness
– cold sweat
– terrible headaches
– depression
– loss of appetite due to vomiting whatever she ate
– having insomnia
– feeling fearful
WHAT IS GOING ON? She is now so weak that I am afraid of loosing her, I know pregnancies are difficult, but this is something else…please help me help her.
I need to know if these are miscarriage symptoms. Please advice…we can’t afford the prejudice of doctors here and the consultations alone are cut-throat without any helpful advice and soulless perceptions.
Regards & prayers for hope from you,
Anthony.