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Sue, i am very sorry for your loss also. i read your post, and subsequent others, and i have to thank you all for your information...bc it led me to make a much more informed decision for my miscarriage. I was 6 weeks pregnant with a heartbeat, etc, and by 6.5 weeks there was no heartbeat anymore. this is my 3rd miscarriage in a row. my doctor said i should just do the D+C and get it over with. i was a wreck bc i had 2 previous D+Cs and they were traumatic. i say that bc i am very uncomfortable with needles and i was very upset with being injected with vallium and instantly having the room spin and i felt the cold liquid in my system and my ears rang and everyone sounded a mile away in the room. i just don't like to be out of mental control like that and i definitely didn't want to be put under general anesthesia when it wasn't necessary. So i convinced my doctor, and doula who was in the office with me, to try and miscarry as "naturally" as possible. they sent me home with 10 pills of cytotec and i started that medication immediately. that was monday. by tuesday i was cramping heavily and had slept very little. it was painful and drawn out and added to it i got diarrhea and even by thursday never any blood. i read everyone's post here and realized i could be looking at more pain plus 2 weeks of bleeding going this route. that could delay my desire to get back to health and try for a baby again as soon as possible! so i called my doctor and doula back and scheduled a D+C for friday. I explained to them how traumatic it was for me to be put under the usual sedation. in the end-i did the D+C, and i have to say, it was absolutely the most positive experience i could have possibly had despite having to cope with a miscarriage. my doctor usually gives patients btwn 35 and 50 units of vallium. for me, he started with 5! and slowly, a few minutes later, he gave me another 5 units--a total of 10. FAR below the normal amount. i felt very very little pain, the room never spun, no one felt a mile away in my ears, there was no cold rush of fluid i could feel in my veins, and it was painlessly finished within 10 minutes. i was up and walking around within 20 and healthy enough to host my cooking club dinner party with my girlfriends that night that i had the unfortunate timing on! but its been a full day later, i've had very little bleeding, no cramping or pain whatsoever, and i have the added bonus of sending the embryo off for genetic testing to help me going forward to make better fertility choices--i pray i never have to have another miscarriage again, and that no one else has to experience 3 in a row like this! but if it should happen again, i will do the D+C hands down. it was far less painful, and with almost no vallium, it was completely comfortable and bearable. My doctor was superb to listen to my fears and adjust his normal doses to give me very little vallium. it turned out to be the best decision i could have made. i hope this helps other women who have to make this decision. Good Luck to all of you faced with managing a miscarriage-and may you all move on to healthy pregnancies in the future!

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