Can I induce labor if I am more than four months pregnant?

If you are four months pregnant and have to have an induced abortion for various reasons, you should follow the doctor's advice to perform the operation. After all, induced abortion causes great harm and risks to women, and the operation should be performed in a regular hospital.

1. Induced abortion is mainly performed after 3 months of pregnancy. Generally speaking, after 3 months of pregnancy, the fetus has begun to develop, the bones have gradually formed, and the uterus will be relatively large. It is very dangerous to have an artificial abortion at this time, and choosing a safe induced abortion surgery is inevitable. Therefore, inducing abortion for a 4-month-old fetus is relatively dangerous, but it is not impossible. After three months of pregnancy, the placenta has been formed and the fetus is larger, so the operation will become more difficult and cause greater harm to the woman's body. To this end, everyone needs to know the best time to induce labor and perform abortion at the best time to reduce the harmfulness of the operation. If a woman has an unexpected pregnancy, she must have an abortion as early as possible within the abortion period, and do not wait until the fetus is too old to have an induced abortion.

2. Since induced abortion surgery brings relatively greater risks to the patient and there are many postoperative complications and sequelae, everyone must go to a regular and professional hospital for surgery to ensure their own life safety. Regular hospitals have professional doctors perform the operations personally, thus avoiding bleeding, infection and other sequelae caused by improper operations. Women who want to have an induced abortion must do it as soon as possible. The longer the pregnancy lasts, the faster the uterus grows, the uterine wall becomes congested and softened, and it is easy to damage the uterine wall during surgery. Therefore, mid-term induced labor is more difficult and has more complications than early-term artificial abortion. At this time, everyone must choose a safer abortion technology to avoid any accidents during abortion, or infertility after the operation, which will be too late to regret.

3. The latest national regulations now require that abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy must have a certificate from the family planning department and the hospital. Other private and private hospitals may not be so strict, but their medical management and staff technical levels vary greatly, and the cost of defending rights is high if something goes wrong.

4. The most common risk is infection caused by the need for surgical “cleansing” of the uterus after the fetus is expelled from the uterus. This can still happen even if the doctor is experienced, disinfection is strict and the process goes smoothly. For example, colds, pneumonia and diarrhea are far more common than other diseases because the respiratory and digestive tracts are open systems, compared to the nervous system, blood system, and so on. The impact from external factors is much smaller. During uterine cleaning, instruments and even the doctor's hands will enter the vagina and uterus, and bleeding for several days after delivery will also increase the chance of infection. You may get vaginitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and become infertile in the future.

5. Secondly, excessive uterine cleaning will affect the chances of future pregnancy, while "improper" uterine cleaning will cause continuous bleeding or even heavy bleeding. The boundary between the two is vague, and only doctors can estimate the degree.

6. Rare cases include liver damage caused by abortion drugs, massive hemorrhage during and after delivery, the fetus being too stubborn or insensitive to drugs and unable to be aborted, the aborted fetus being alive, and uterine perforation during uterine curettage.