Many women of childbearing age take medication for minor illnesses or go for a medical checkup and get an X-ray, only to find out that their period is late after the due date. When you go to the hospital for a checkup, you are told that you have an unwanted pregnancy. This is both happy and frightening news! Why are they scared? It is because they will have a big question: Can they still have the baby if they have taken medicine or X-ray in early pregnancy? X-rays or medication early in pregnancy can either cause a miscarriage or have “no” effect at all. If you go to the hospital and ask the doctor, if you meet an irresponsible doctor, he will probably suggest aborting the baby without even thinking about it; if you meet a responsible doctor, he will usually think about checking the drug manual, but Chinese drug manuals usually only indicate “prohibited” or “caution”. “These warnings do not mean that the fetus will definitely be deformed if the mother takes these drugs, but sometimes doctors may directly advise pregnant mothers who have taken such warnings to abort their babies in order to protect themselves. Is this really the right thing to do? In fact, there is a lot of clinical evidence from abroad that the use of medication or X-ray exposure in early pregnancy (note: this refers to the period before the 4th week of pregnancy, i.e. 28 days after the first day of the last menstrual period) can only have two effects on the baby in the womb: the first result is that the baby receives all the adverse effects and miscarries naturally; the second result is that the baby is not adversely affected and grows normally. The second result is that the baby is not adversely affected and grows normally. This is the internationally accepted “all or nothing” theory of early pregnancy. In other words, the use of drugs or X-rays before the fourth week of pregnancy will not result in the birth of a deformed baby, as is feared. This is because during the early stages of pregnancy (i.e. before the 4th week of pregnancy), the sperm and egg have just joined and are busy setting up camp in the uterus. At this time, the fertilized egg only undergoes a simple cell division to achieve an increase in the number of identical cells, but it has not yet differentiated into different cells, nor has it differentiated into tissues and organs, and since it has not yet differentiated into organs, it is not possible to talk about the formation of organ deformities, so it will not give birth to the feared deformed baby at all. In addition, the embryo has a self-correcting function during cell division. If the cell division goes well, the fetus will grow up healthily, and if the cell division does not go well, the baby will be eliminated naturally. Many people, including some medical professionals, do not necessarily understand this, and once they hear that they have taken medicine or X-ray in early pregnancy, they suggest aborting the embryo, which has resulted in many human tragedies, and many pregnant mothers follow the doctor’s advice to abort the fetus for insurance purposes, but in fact the aborted fetus is a healthy one. Some people recover from the abortion and can conceive again, but others are very unlucky and will probably never conceive again. It is important to emphasize that in the case of an unplanned pregnancy before the 4th week of pregnancy, if the embryo has not been aborted spontaneously, the “all or nothing” theory can be considered to keep the baby. However, for couples who are planning or preparing for pregnancy, in order to avoid spontaneous abortions due to medication or x-rays, it is important to test for pregnancy before each medication or x-ray and confirm that you are not pregnant before taking the x-ray. Also, to be on the safe side, you should avoid pregnancy for 3 months after the x-ray, including both men and women. Emergency contraceptives do not cause fetal abnormalities. Some people want to have a baby, so they look forward to getting pregnant all day long, and sometimes they even have to take medication to treat infertility, and the baby doesn’t come even after a long time. In clinical practice, there are often women who take the emergency contraceptive pill after intercourse and still end up pregnant, so can they have the baby? Before answering this question, it is important to understand what the emergency contraceptive pill is. The main component of the emergency contraceptive pill is the progestin levonorgestrel (such as the well-known Yutin). These pills work by inhibiting ovulation, preventing the union of sperm and egg, and preventing the fertilized egg from being laid in the uterus. Its usage is to take one tablet (0.75 mg) as early as possible within 72 hours after intercourse, and the second tablet 12 hours later; or two tablets (1.5 mg) together, and there is already a 1.5 mg emergency contraceptive pill on the market, such as gold Yutin, which can be taken once. If vomiting occurs within two hours after taking it, you should take a refill immediately. People who get pregnant even after taking Yutin often suspect that they may have taken a fake pill, how can they still get pregnant after taking the pill? In fact, the success rate of these pills is not 100%, but around 80%, so there is still a 20% chance that a woman will get pregnant after taking these pills. If the medication does not succeed in suppressing ovulation, preventing the union of sperm and egg, or intercepting the fertilized egg in the uterus, then, according to the “all or nothing” theory mentioned above, the baby conceived in this case can be kept if it is not aborted. This theory sends a message to us: if you are not explicitly taking medication that is prohibited during pregnancy, do not take the decision to terminate the pregnancy lightly, but let nature take its course and wait and see what happens. This is because even if there is concern in case there is something wrong, it can be subsequently ruled out by means of medical detoxification tests. Nowadays, obstetric testing technology is quite sophisticated and can monitor fetal development through ultrasound, amniocentesis and various tests. It is not too late to terminate the pregnancy in case any problem is detected in the fetus.