If you’re in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, you don’t need any further medicines.
If you have a pregnancy of 13 weeks or more and you may want to have a full-term pregnancy sometime in the future, you should get an injection with Anti-D in the first 72 hours after the abortion. You can tell the health worker you had a miscarriage, and you have a rhesus negative blood type to get the Anti-D injection. This will prevent complications related to your rhesus negative blood type in a next pregnancy that is carried to term.
Sources
- Horvath, Sarah, Zhen-Yu Huang, Nathanael C. Koelper, Christian Martinez, Patricia Y. Tsao, Ling Zhao, Alisa B. Goldberg, et al. 2023. ‘Induced Abortion and the Risk of Rh Sensitization’. JAMA 330 (12): 1167–74. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.16953
- World Health Organization. 2022. Abortion Care Guideline. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/349316
- World Health Organization. 2023. Clinical Practice Handbook for Quality Abortion Care. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240075207
