Kim Kardashian Says She Thought She Had A Miscarriage While Pregnant With North
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And it was hard. Unaired footage shows that the 36-year-old suffered from “debilitating” stomach pain all throughout her pregnancy, as reported by Refinery 29.
“At one point I thought I had a miscarriage, I was pretty certain about it,” she reveals, explaining that she went to the doctor on Thanksgiving Day, in the very beginning of her pregnancy, and was told her baby had no heartbeat. The next morning however, she went back to the doctor, who discovered that North did indeed have a heart beat.
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According to Jaime Knopman, M.D., co-founder of Truly MD and Director of Fertility Preservation at the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine-New York, the sequence of events that Kim describes is definitely unusual.
“If you change ultrasound machines (high quality to low quality) it can be harder to detect it, but this is unlikely,” Knapman says. But he adds, “If there is pathology within the uterus like fibroids or adenomyosis [a condition in which endometrial tissue grows into the uterine wall] it can be harder to identify the heartbeat.”
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As for Kim’s debilitating stomach pain, Knapman says this is also uncommon. “While an impending miscarriage can be signified by intense cramping it is usually coupled with bleeding,” Knopman says. “Occasionally it could be related to ovarian pathology, like an ovary twisting or a cyst rupturing. Lastly it could be secondary to something totally non-related like a stomach virus or acid reflux.”
Kim is rumored to be using a surrogate to have her third baby due to complications in previous pregnancies.