Abortion Options for Women with Unintended Pregnancy

1. Abortion Options for Women with Unintended Pregnancy Are you facing symptoms of pregnancy? Have you taken a home test? Now you are worried about knowing the undesired pregnancy. You are thinking about abortion options. You are disappointed and losing hope. Here is the way you can check how you can prevent an undesired pregnancy. In this article, gynecologist and counseling experts are going to share the difficulties and decisions of abortions. This article will be helpful for those women who are busy, working women, and not ready to give birth to a child. This article may help those women who want to counsel before and after abortion and an age gap in two children. Table of Content • Am I really pregnant? • Pregnancy Symptoms • What is Abortion? • Factors behind unintended abortion • Abortion law • When does abortion counseling need? • Counseling before Abortion • Counseling after Abortion • What are the different abortion procedures? • Abortion Pill treatment • Expected effects of pill treatment • After pill treatment follow up instructions • Surgical abortion • Vacuum aspiration abortion • Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E) Abortion

2. Am I really pregnant? This is the question that makes women depressed when they felt unintended pregnancy symptoms. At this time it is necessary to confirm your pregnancy at home with a medical test. If the pregnancy test is positive, after that you should go for ultrasounds that will determine how far along you are from the abortion. Pregnancy Symptoms •You have missed one or more menstrual periods. •Your breast is swollen or tend. •You are having urine more often. •You are feeling tired and dizzy. •You are feeling nausea and had a change in appetite. •You gained or lose weight recently. What is Abortion? Abortion is a procedure when you don’t want to give birth to a child and you want to end the pregnancy. Doctors use medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus.Abortion is a very special process for a woman. This decision is very special. This is a completely personal matter. Abortion is a controversial and divisive issue insociety and culture. Factors behind unintended abortion There are reasons not to get pregnant. The most important thing in this is to have children first, to end the relationship with your partner, lower educational level, not being currently married, and younger reported age. Leading causes of unintended pregnancies are non-use and also improver the use of contraceptive services and contraceptive failure. Did You Know?The first recorded evidence of induced abortion is from the Egyptian Papyrus in 1550 BCE.

3. Abortion law Many countries and territories that allow abortion have gestational limits for the procedure depending on the reason: with the majority being up to 12 weeks, up to 24 weeks for rape or incest or socioeconomics or women’s health or life risk.According to United Nations (UN) report up to 2019, abortion is allowed in 98% of countries in order to save a woman’s life. When does Abortion Counseling need? A number of things can be complicated by an unexpected pregnancy. You may need a counselor to make your better options. An unintended pregnancy can be complicated by a number of things: • Career pressures • Financial needs • Broken relations • Health issues • Family tension

4. Counseling before Abortion Sometimes it’s called pregnancy support counseling, its aim is to provide you with information and help. It can be helpful even if you already have to make a decision. The first question that comes to your mind is should I get counseling on having an abortion?Of course, you’ll need accurate information to help in making decisions. It is very important to know about all the risks and options before taking an abortion. When you come to a point and are not able to take a step toward abortion, at that time a trained health professional counselor is very important for you. You can talk to your counselor about the abortion procedure, thoughts, and feelings. Counseling can be supported and motivateyou to make the right decision for you and can highlight the pros and cons of abortion. Your partner and family may also want to have counseling. A trained counselor will talk to you about the procedure itself so you can decide and understand what to expect afterward. Counseling after Abortion Post-abortion counseling, you can consider it the part of abortion. It is very difficult to recover quickly mentally. Experts work to improve your health. Who doesn't like children? It is very difficult to lose a child at will. Only a mother can tell you how to live in this pain. Abortion is an important and personal decision in life. For some women, after having an abortion they go through trauma. They may experience depression, shame, guilt, anxiety afterward. They should go for follow-up appointments which they can talk to a doctor, expert, nurse, or professional health worker about how they feel.

5. After an abortion, it doesn’t matter how long time far you go for counseling. You can get appointments over the telephone or at one of your clinics. It is necessary for women to take counseling for a better life and to move on. With a professional counselor, you can talk about deep sadness and a lack of interest in life. You can contact a mental health professional. What are the different abortion procedures? • Abortion Pill Treatment • Surgical treatment Abortion Pill treatment Use of abortion pills is usually prescribed by a doctor at home. This allows a client to take both pills for medical abortion up to 10 weeks at their homes rather than clinics. The abortion pills from 10 weeks to 24 weeks are always used in the clinic. • After pill treatment, you will feel lower abdominal pain may be cramping and vaginal bleeding. Pain can be severe in some abortion cases. Most of the abortions take 4 hours to complete pills treatment but for some, it may take a longer time. You also can feel some effects after using pills: Expected effects of pill treatment ➢Nausea ➢Vomiting ➢Sickness ➢Diarrhea ➢Headache ➢Dizziness ➢Fever/ Chills • Usually, abortion pills work effectively. But is important to make sure it has worked or not? You need to do a self- assessment check to ensure your treatment has worked and you are no longer pregnant. Follow these instructions for self-assessment check: After pill treatment follow up instructions ➢You did not bleed after taking pills or had only spotting within 24 hours of treatment. ➢You bleed less than 4 days ➢After 1 week of abortion, you are still feeling pregnancy symptoms. ➢My next period has not come by 4 weeks after pills treatment. Surgical Abortion In surgical abortion, a minor operation done by a local anesthetic may be with sedation or rarely with general anesthetics. Surgical abortion is divided into two types: • Vacuum aspiration abortion • Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E) abortion

6. • Vacuum abortion is also called the most common type of surgical abortion. It can be done with a local anesthetic, sedation, or general anesthetic. When vacuum abortion is done? Vacuum aspiration abortion ➢Up to 14 weeks, this can be done with local anesthetics. ➢Through vacuum removes the pregnancy by gentle suction. ➢You get recover fast from this procedure. • It is the dilatation of the cervix and surgical evacuation of the uterus (potentially including the fetus, placenta, and other tissue) after the first trimester of pregnancy. It removes all pregnancy tissues. Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E) abortion ➢It usually takes 30 minutes. ➢Bleeding lasts usually about 2 to 4 weeks. ➢You may not bleed right after an abortion procedure. You may bleed after 3 or 5 days just because of hormonal changes and medicines. In this article, gynecologist and experts recommend that after getting unintended pregnancy you must talk to your partner, your family, or your friends for the next step. If you are not able to take any action about abortion you must get an appointment for counseling. A trained and professional counselor can understand you better and a counselor can help you to make a decision.