I got pregnant in July with my first pregnancy, a couple months after getting married… that ended with a miscarriage around 4 weeks or so after mikveh. (Counting from last period 6 weeks, I think a few days under 40 days…but hard to say exactly…)
Fast forward to September, I got pregnant again! Just yesterday I went to the doctor for my first check up at 8 weeks…(according to last period, 10 weeks but as we follow taharat mishpacha, I know realistically it was around 8 weeks ago that I conceived! BH).
So I went for the scan and to my surprise, unfortunately, the sac was empty, a yolk sac had slightly developed but not really anything… no embryo. Was diagnosed with Blighted Ovum.
The words echo in my head…”there’s no pregnancy here…”
I then went to the ER…The Dr at the ER told me that because it measures around 14mm or so, it has to measure 20mm to be considered what they call a “blighted ovum” and they told me to go home and come back in a week! 14mm is about 5 weeks pregnant, the sac seemed to have stopped there…
When I got home, I started to bleed pretty heavy, so I felt from my previous experience… this is probably the miscarriage happening. BH HaShem is king and He knows everything, even though it’s tough or painful, I understand as much as I can at this point.
Now after this long story, I wanted to ask something, If my pregnancy went over 40 days, but there is no fetus, would that be halachically considered a pregnancy and would I have to refrain from doing a pidyon haben if my first child is a boy?
…B'ezrat HaShem, or even if there was no fetus, it still is considered a pregnancy?