Something isn't right.

[athalyah]

I'm a medical student currently working as a doctor's assistant at an obgyn clinic. I work with some of the patients just simply filling out their charts & taking vitals. I am also 32 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child. A woman had come in for her first appointment saying that she had already had 2 miscarriages which she believed was caused by bleeding after sex in both cases. I put it down on her chart. The minute the doctor saw what I wrote he told the woman that sex can not cause miscarriages. But bleeding happens because the cervix becomes irritated during sex. That sounded very fishy to me. The woman ended up miscarring this child also... after sex. I feel so bad :( I feel like I was a part of giving her the "okay" to have sex. But it has not been medically proven that sex causes miscarriages. But I have not been able to sleep. & I have been doing my own research on the topic just to see if similar cases have happened to other women. I read on here a lot that you ladies experience bleeding after sex. I also have read on other forums that women believe they miscarried after sex. Can you ladies please help me by sharing any of your experiences with me. Have you ever had a miscarriage that you believe was related to sex? Or have you ever bled after sex during pregnancy?

[athalyah]

@Wayfunmommy I understood what you were saying. You said that these contractions start the "release". I'm guessing you mean the release of the embryo or fetish? But in order to do that these contractions have to be strong enough to cause the cervix to actually open up and dilate causing this release of the embryo which you are saying wouldn't have happened otherwise unless their was an orgasm to trigger it. That is very unfactual. Once a miscarriage begins, the body has to shut down the pregnancy. Which can take a few weeks for some women. This is why some women are prescribed medications so that the body can begin the process of removing the dead embryo or others choose to let it pass naturally. But an orgasm does not play any role in a contractions being strong enough to actually pass the baby down because they do not cause the cervix to open . That would technically be called labor and orgasms do not bring about labor.

[wayfunmommy]

I've been pregnant 7 times. I've had two miscarriages. I've lost two babies. Every time I have sex and orgasm, it causes a contraction. I'd like to see the research showing it doesn't cause a contraction. At no pint did I say it causes labor, only a contraction. There have been multiple studies that show it does cause contractions (while pregnant and while fertile) to include video, sonogram and MRI evidence.
By the way, I started bleeding with one of my losses after orgasm. The sonogram I had during showed that at nine weeks, my baby only measured six weeks and had likely passed at least two weeks before I started bleeding.

[athalyah]

@knufrio But once again you are implying that sex can help a miscarriage come about by helping the progress of it. If something is helping the progress of something move quicker, like smoking not only causes cancer but can worsen cancer in someone who already has lung cancer, then sex may be helping in that same way as you said. I think another thing you are overlooking is the importance the cervix plays on pregnancy. Especially during the early weeks. In fact before the 12th week mark all women are at the risk of miscarriage despite how healthy or strong their cervix is. This is because in those first few weeks there are a lot of changes the cervix goes through that are very crucial to how the baby implants properly as well as how the placenta begins to form. Even during labor, once again it's the cervix and uterus connecting with one another. The uterus sends the contractions down to the cervix causing it to dilate. And at the beginning of pregnancy the cervix sends nerve signals to the uterus telling it to begin expanding as well for the placenta. This is the "fluttering" feeling that many women feel at the beginning of pregnancy & question if its baby kicks. So once again, if something can irritate the cervix to the point of bleeding, I wonder why isn't there any thorough studies on how this may actually effect the pregnancy?

[athalyah]

@Dee7m In all honesty folic acid isn't good for anything. And what t claims to be good for hasn't been thoroughly studied to be proven fact. Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate. So it's used for vitiman B but effects other parts of the body negatively. Folate is the simple answer and really what pregnant women should be getting. You can get enough folate in your body to have a healthy pregnancy simply from eating a spinach salad once a day or eating foods high in folate like turnip greens or any green foods. But folate is more expensive than folic acid. So it's cheaper to go with folic acid especially since now most women get their prenatals from their Medicaid plan. Dr. Fuhrman wrote a very easy to understand explanation to why it's no good on his website as well as the American clinical nutrition journal. You can read them online by typing in "Dr. Fuhrman folic acid" or "American Clinical Health Jounrnal folic acid".    

[knufrio]

Its the same argument that people make saying the flu shot gives you the flu, no it doesn't. If you get sick within the few days after your flu shot it's because you were already previously exposed to an illness and the hit to your immune system made you more likely to become ill. You are most likely already starting to miscarry when you have sex, but that "hit to the cervix" so to speak just fuels the flame.

[knufrio]

I didn't imply that it plays a role in miscarriage. What I was trying to say is that if you're going to miscarry, you're going to miscarry, whether you have sex or not. However if you are starting to miscarry having sex may help to move it along quicker than it would have progressed otherwise. In a healthy pregnancy the cervix is thick and fully closed with the mucous plus protecting everything. If you are going to miscarry your cervix will start to thin and efface in order to open enough to shed the contents of the uterus. Just because sex can irritate the cervix does not mean it will cause any harm to a healthy pregnancy. Irritation to a healthy cervix will not cause any issues, but because it's all so vascular is why you may see some minor bleeding and irritation.