A missed or delayed miscarriage is a miscarriage that is only spotted during a routine scan carried out as part of your routine antenatal care. The scan may reveal that the baby has no heartbeat or that the baby is too small in size for the delivery date.
If this is the case, then the next step will be to wait for the pregnancy tissue to pass out of the uterus naturally or you may need to take medicine to cause the tissue to pass out of the uterus. Sometimes the pregnancy tissue may need to be surgically removed.