Why didn't body reject 10 week fetus......?

Question

I just recently had a missed miscarriage. I should have been 22 weeks but the u/s showed the baby's heart had stopped at 10 weeks. What I don't understand and the doctor's couldn't even explain is why for 12 weeks my body never rejected the fetus. I never had any signs or symptoms and my body was even still "thinking" I was pregnant. If I hadn't had an u/s I wouldn't have even known! Has anyone heard about why this would happen?

Answer 1

i have a  book called pregnancy week by week they call that a missed miscarrige" a missed misscarige can occur with prolonged retention of an embryo that died earlier there may be no symptoms or bleeding the time period from when the pregnancy failed to the time the miscarrige is discovered is usually weeks"

Answer 2

the body is a mysterious thing. this isn't uncommon though if you were that far along.  

Answer 3

im so sorry your going thru this, i never heard of that

i was 7 weeks and going thru a miscarriage myself

many blessings to you

Answer 4

Yes it happened to me at 19 weeks my daughter died like 4 days before I went in for my ultrasound.. So its really weird to me that I didn't have any signs but I didn't... Sorry for your lost...

Answer 5

Yes, mine were due to blood clots though.  I have had miscarraiges ranging from 5 weeks up to 38 weeks (stillborn).  Depending on if your body recognizes it, whether the hormone levels will come down and you miscarry naturally.  I'm sorry for your loss, and hope you have the baby you are dreaming for soon

Answer 6

I'm so sorry for your loss. The human body truly is an amazing and weird thing all at the same time. This reminds me of a story that I saw on Discovery Health. A lady in a 3rd world country was 8 or 9 months pregnant when her baby died. She never went into labor and didn't have access to a medical facility that would remove the baby. She carried the baby for 40 some odd years before finally having it removed. The doctors said the entire baby was hard, like bone, and that all of the woman's organs and such had just begun to grow around the fossilized baby.