Most surgical abortions are performed in the first trimester. An incompetent cervix can cause problems in later pregnancies, because it is too weak to remain fully closed under the weight of a growing pregnancy. These last two complications are rare, because surgical abortions are undertaken by experienced surgeons. Be guided by your clinic as to how to care for yourself and reduce your risk of infection after a surgical abortion.
Generally, the following suggestions apply for two weeks after your procedure, or a few days after bleeding has stopped :. This page has been produced in consultation with and approved by:. Some abortion services in Victoria offer reduced fees to students, healthcare card holders and those experiencing financial difficulty. In Victoria, you can have two types of abortion: surgical and medication.
Both types are safe and reliable. You can have a medication abortion up to nine weeks of pregnancy. You can have a surgical abortion from around six weeks of pregnancy onwards. Mifepristone, also called RU or the 'abortion pill', is used to terminate end a pregnancy up to nine weeks. When an infant becomes part of your family through adoption, foster care, surrogacy or other arrangements, there are laws and legal agreements that will outline your rights and responsibilities as a parent.
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Skip to main content. Healthy pregnancy. Home Healthy pregnancy. Abortion procedures - surgical. Actions for this page Listen Print. Summary Read the full fact sheet. If you are 12 to 14 weeks pregnant, you also will receive a medication called misoprostol, which softens your cervix to make dilation easier. This portion of the visit takes about 20 minutes. If you are less than 12 weeks pregnant, the oral medications need 45 to 60 minutes to be most effective. You will be awake, but well relaxed.
You may stay in your room or wait in the reception area. We have magazines and portable stereos; you may want to bring something to read or a CD to occupy your wait time, which will be 45 to 60 minutes. If you are 12 to 14 weeks pregnant, the misoprostol needs two to three hours to work. We will page you when it is time for you to return to the clinic. When you return, we will give you oral medications, including Vicodin, Valium and ibuprofen, and ask you to wait an additional 30 to 60 minutes for those to fully relax you.
Continue reading. Your support person can be right next to you for the whole procedure. Use a speculum to view inside your vagina 2. Clean your vagina and cervix with gauze soaked in soap 3. Apply numbing medication to your cervix 4.
Dilate your cervix, the tight opening to your uterus, with thin metal rods 5. Insert a narrow flexible tube into your uterus 6. Apply gentle suction to the other end of the tube to remove all of the pregnancy tissue. If not for the politics of the abortion issue, based on their safety record these pills could be available over the counter. Learn more about self-managed abortion at the link below. Medication abortion is different than emergency contraception, or the morning after pill.
Emergency contraception is a medication taken after sex or sexual assault to prevent pregnancy. Emergency contraception is not an abortion. The two most common types of abortion procedure are vacuum aspiration and dilation and evacuation. Aspiration is by far the most common abortion procedure. Both of these procedures are performed at a clinic.
The pregnancy is passed comes out through the vagina. This usually happens several hours after you take the second medicine. Surgical abortion involves an operation to remove the pregnancy from the womb. It may be done with:.
Most people having deep sedation will not remember anything and will not be aware during the operation. If you have a general anaesthetic, you'll be fully asleep during the operation and will not remember anything. What kind of anaesthetic or sedation you have depends on your circumstances, how many weeks pregnant you are and your own preference. Before a surgical abortion, you'll be asked to have a medicine to open the cervix. This happens either a few hours or 1 to 2 days before the operation, depending on the medicine used.
A tube is inserted into the womb through the cervix the opening to the womb from the vagina , and the pregnancy is removed using suction.
The doctor may need to use special instruments to help remove the pregnancy, depending on how many weeks pregnant you are.
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