Molar Pregnancy
You lost a baby, but also, your health is on the line. I don’t think anyone can totally process all the info. The best way I can describe it, is that a tornado came to consume me - Maria A. Karamitsos
image by: Choriocarcinoma & Molar Pregnancy Awareness
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Molars are in Your Mouth, Silly!
What? You have a molar what? Molars are in your mouth, silly!” I imagine my Boo saying something like that. But of course I didn’t tell her any of this.
I had a complete molar pregnancy. It’s something that’s pretty rare. In fact, I understand that many OB/GYN’s never ever encounter one in all their years of practice. The ones that do, experience only a few. It happens like 1 in 1000.
Complete molar pregnancy. It gets stuck in my mouth when I try to say it. Maybe because molars are supposed to be in your mouth and not in your womb. An unfortunate term, but I guess remnants of the pregnancy can act like a mole,…
Resources
How my molar pregnancy became a life-changing event
At first I assumed it was a virus, and then that I was expecting another child. But the truth was far more disturbing – and the start of a long and emotionally taxing battle.
In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness
The memories of a midwife being with me during my greatest joy, as well as deepest sorrow, have haunted me for twenty years. It is time to tell this story.
Making Mountains out of Moles: The molar pregnancy
Molar pregnancies tend to be found in the older or very young female. Previous molar pregnancy is the biggest risk factor. While complete molar pregnancies can present with vaginal bleeding, hyperemesis, larger than gestational age uterus and even passage of grape like vesicles. many patients with partial molar pregnancies can be asymptomatic or present just like a missed/incomplete abortion.
Management of molar pregnancy
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD) originates from placental tissue and is among the rare human tumors that can be cured even in the presence of widespread metastases.
Molars are in Your Mouth, Silly!
I had a complete molar pregnancy. It’s something that’s pretty rare. In fact, I understand that many OB/GYN’s never ever encounter one in all their years of practice. The ones that do, experience only a few. It happens like 1 in 1000.
Molar Pregnancy UK
The website is here to provide information and support to women who are currently, or have previously suffered from a molar pregnancy. The founder, talks about her feelings and fears and about how she is still coming to terms with her loss. By doing so; she hopes that you and other visitors to the site can relate to her and feel safer in the knowledge you are not alone.. We hope that with the help of various hospitals and treatment providers, molarpregnancy.co.uk will continue to be THE place of referral for sufferers of this often misunderstood condition..
MyMolarPregnancy.com
If you’ve come to this site because you have had or are currently being treated for this condition, I’m very sorry for your loss. If you’ve come in out of curiosity, I hope you will leave with a better awareness of the existence and impact of molar pregnancy, particularly if you are a woman of childbearing age. If you know someone who has had a miscarriage diagnosed as a molar pregnancy, I urge you to refer them to this site for information and support.
Tommy's
In many cases there may be no signs that you are having a molar pregnancy and it may go undetected until your routine early pregnancy scan at 10-12 weeks. If you are pregnant, the following are signs that it could be a molar pregnancy: •dark coloured, irregular vaginal bleeding, •severe morning sickness, •you may get bigger more quickly than usual, •some abdominal pain.
American Pregnancy Association
•Most molar pregnancies will spontaneously end and the expelled tissue will appear grape-like. •Molar pregnancies are removed by suction curettage, dilation and evacuation (D & C), or sometimes through medication. General anesthetic is normally used during these procedures. •Approximately 90% of women who have a mole removed require no further treatment.
MayoClinic
In a complete molar pregnancy, there's no embryo or normal placental tissue. In a partial molar pregnancy, there's an abnormal embryo and possibly some normal placental tissue. The embryo begins to develop but is malformed and can't survive. A molar pregnancy can have serious complications — including a rare form of cancer — and requires early treatment.
MedlinePlus
Hydatidiform mole is a rare mass or growth that forms inside the womb (uterus) at the beginning of a pregnancy. It is a type of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). A cancerous form of GTD is called choriocarcinoma.
NHS
Molar pregnancies are caused by an imbalance in genetic material (chromosomes) in the pregnancy. This usually occurs when an egg that contains no genetic information is fertilised by a sperm (a complete molar pregnancy), or when a normal egg is fertilised by two sperm (a partial molar pregnancy).
Patient
Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) forms a group of disorders which range from molar pregnancies to malignant conditions such as choriocarcinoma. If there is any evidence of persistence of GTD the condition is referred to as gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN).
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