Can you have a miscarriage at 8-9 months of pregnancy?

Question

Ok, so this girl I know said she was pregnant... 9 months ago, she was "DUE" to have her baby two weeks ago.. She all of a sudded said she had a miscarriage and had a D&C done, I asked her about it today, I said where is your baby at, she said I had a miscarriage. I asked her your not gana have a funeral for your own baby? she said no, i said yeah because there was no baby... she didnt say anything to me.

during her 9 months of pregnancy i had seen her often and she didnt get any bigger, of course she was already on the heavier side... but her stomach never got hard. and her mom told us that her ultrasound she had, she printed it off the internet...

she said she was going to the doctor that i had went to the year before for my son, they do 3D ultrasounds, hers was not 3D...

so pretty much i think she is leing. how could you have a miscarriage at 9 months and not have a funeral for your baby!?!?! she acts as if nothing had ever happened.

so can someone tell me if it is even possible. because i dont see how it is.

she is such a lier, she tells so many lies she doesnt know whats the truth and whats not.

Answer 1

My sister carried her baby to the ninth month and went in for her check up to find the baby had died. She had to go through the whole delivery process and after it ,she had a d&c because the baby had been died for a few days. She did have a funeral for her son, but some people may not.I don't know this person so I can't speak for her. Losing a baby atmonthshs is very hard. Derek is still remembered today. Oh and the ultrasound doesn't have to be 3D. Some insurances don't pay for it. I know mine didn't for my second child.

Answer 2

A miscarriage that would require a D&C ends at 20 weeks. After 20 weeks it would be a baby - and would be considered still born. It would definitely be still born at 9 months. And if she had actually lost a baby you would know it, unless she is just heartless. I had my son at 24 weeks and lost him after 26 days.. I could hardly get out of bed some mornings. It was one of the most devastating things that anyone could ever go through, to lose a child, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.  

Answer 3

oh it can happen...but it dont sound like it happend to her

Answer 4

its not calles miscariage its called still birth . and by law you either have a funeral or cremation ceremony after 20 weeks gestation , i lost one at 28 weeks this past dec and i was devastated , and even when im preg again i still suffer the loss of that baby and often find myself crying . you dont know how hard it to give birth and go thru all the labor and pain just to have your baby born without life. i sont understand how someone can act like nothing happend in a situation like. either she is lieing or she did not want that baby at all .  

Answer 5

I really don't see how you can miscarry at 9 months. You can have a baby still born, or die from premature birth, but not a miscarriage. She was lying, especially if her OWN mother told you she printer the ultrasound off the internet. Wow...she must be an attention w***e.

Answer 6

at 9 months it is a still birth. my sister lost my nephew at 20 weeks and she had o del him. we cremated him and put his ashes in a small silver box. she had the choice since she was so early to have a death cirtf but didnt fillit out they places his foot prints on the back of one incase she wantd to fillit out herself. i dont know why anyone would say they are preggy then not just to get attion from other but you do have sick ppl out there. if she had the baby at 8 to 9 months there would be a birth and death record on that. cuz it is concidered a term baby

Answer 7

That is truly bizarre.  What a horrible lie to tell.  It is not considered a miscarriage after about 27 weeks, it is a stillborn and is a very traumatic experience because the mother has to actually be induced into and experience labor, and give birth to their stillborn baby.

Sounds fishy to me.

Answer 8

  Anything over 20 weeks of gestation is a stillbirth. At nearly nine months she would have delivered a whole baby, naturally or by c-section. Maybe she had an early miscarriage and could not come to terms with it. Maybe she was never pregnant. I would just forget the situation.

Answer 9

No, the death of a baby after 20 weeks is called stillbirth. 20 weeks is about 4.5 months along, so at 8 - 9 months she would have experience stillbirth. A d&c is not able to be perform at 8 - 9 months along, a d&c can only be used for miscarriages. The baby would be too big for this kind of operation, and she would have had to give birth to her dead baby - which would really be a horrible experience.

Answer 10

Women can lose a baby at any stage of pregnancy. However, in late pregnancy it is called a stillbirth, and you actually go through the labor process, not a D&C. Since she didn't even know the actual term or process for delivering a stillbirth baby, I would assume she is lying.

Answer 11

of course i am no expert but no you cant have a miscarriage at 8-9 months, it would be a premature birth, and there would be a risk that the baby didnt survive but just as strong a chance that it would survive. So to me it sounds like your friend is lying, maybe she has insecurities and needs help.