After treatment with the abortion pill
Do you have a question after the treatment?
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Outside our opening hours, please contact the GP on duty.
Termination of pregnancy with the abortion pill is a medical treatment.
The treatment consists of two parts, the first of which takes place in the clinic.
In most cases you will not notice anything when taking the abortion pill. Occasionally you may experience some vaginal bleeding or cramps on the same day. However, this never means that the pregnancy has already been terminated completely. You will therefore always have to continue with the second part of the treatment, the final miscarriage.
What can you expect during part two of the abortion pill treatment?
- If you keep moving, in 80% of cases the amniotic sac will be expelled within 4 to 8 hours.
- The abortion for most women takes place within 4 hours of the insertion of misoprostol. For some women it takes longer, even until the following day.
- Medicated abortion is accompanied by blood loss, abdominal cramps and sometimes nausea. The blood loss may be heavy, more than a menstrual period and accompanied by clots.
- Sometimes the amniotic sac can be recognised as a fluffy, whitish cotton ball, but often it will be hidden in a clot.
- Most women experience five days of blood loss, but this can vary from one day to the next.
What should you do and not do?
- It is not sensible to be alone at home on the day of insertion of the misoprostol.
- To prevent infection, we recommend that you do NOT use tampons or menstrual cup, DO NOT have vaginal sex, DO NOT swim and DO NOT bathe for 10-14 days after the abortion.
If you have any further questions or any doubts about your state of health after the abortion pill, please do not hesitate to contact our clinic or your own GP. Or see the frequently asked questions about the abortion pill here.
Contraception
If you choose the following as future contraception:
- an IUD.
Our doctors will place an IUD of your choice by appointment, free of charge, within two months of the abortion treatment. The IUD itself is at your own expense. - The contraceptive pill.
You must start taking it on the same evening of part two of the treatment or on the day after. - a hormone implant.
You have the option of having this inserted free of charge by our doctor on day one of the treatment. The hormone implant itself is at your own expense.
For questions about this or other methods of contraception, please contact the clinic or see the page What is a good choice of contraception for me?