Theres a baby in there. But its dead: mom shares horrific story

“Oh my god, you’re pregnant.”The nurse had whispered it like a revelation.As if she had been delivering good news.But all Ash could do was blink at her.She had to once again recount her nightmare: “That’s literally the whole reason I’m here… There’s a baby in there.

But it’s dead.”  Ash had just completed a routine urine test ahead of surgery, which had flagged high hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) levels. Weeks beforehand, The Gold Coast mom terminated her pregnancy after the embryo implanted in her C-section scar, left behind from her previous pregnancy.“It would have been like life-threatening had I continued that pregnancy ” Ash revealed to Kidspot.The frightening list of risks she was faced with included permanent bladder damage, severe haemorrhaging and the potential need for a hysterectomy.Scar tissue doesn’t stretch like the uterus does.Had the baby been left to grow with the placenta attached to her scar, the outcome could have been devastating.It is one of the rarest forms of pregnancy, so rare that many doctors hadn’t had much experience with a case like hers.

It meant different specialists, numerous appointments and trying to find whatever information she could online.Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.

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Never miss a story.She turned to Google, Facebook groups and TikTok to find others who had experienced the same thing.  “I tried every possible like hashtag like ‘cesarean scar’, ‘c-section defect.’ I tried all of them,” she revealed.“It’s crazy that as women, we don’t even know our own bodies and how things can work.

It’s just… it’s crazy.”Originally, after terminating her pregnancy, doctors were keen to wait for her body to absorb and pass the pregnancy.The doctors treated her with methotrexate.

Only they didn’t ...