what is a miscarrige?

Answer 1

Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks. About 15 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and more than 80 percent of these losses happen before 12 weeks. This doesn't include situations in which you lose a fertilized egg before you get a positive pregnancy test. Studies have found that 30 to 50 percent of fertilized eggs are lost before a woman finds out she's pregnant, because they happen so early that she goes on to get her period about on time. If you lose a baby after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it's called a stillbirth.

Between 50 and 70 percent of first trimester miscarriages are thought to be random events caused by chromosomal abnormalities in the fertilized egg. Most often, this means that the egg or sperm had the wrong number of chromosomes, and as a result, the fertilized egg can't develop normally.

In other cases, a miscarriage is caused by problems that occur during the delicate process of early development — for example, when an egg doesn't implant properly in the uterus or an embryo has structural defects that don't allow it to continue developing. Since most healthcare practitioners won't do a full-scale workup after a single miscarriage, it's usually impossible to tell why the pregnancy was lost. And even when a detailed evaluation is performed — say after you've had two or three consecutive miscarriages — the cause still remains unknown in about half of cases.

When the fertilized egg has chromosomal problems, you may end up with what's sometimes called a blighted ovum (now usually referred to in medical circles as an early pregnancy failure). In this case, the fertilized egg implants in the uterus and the placenta and gestational sac begin to develop, but the resulting embryo either stops developing very early or doesn't form at all. Because the placenta begins to secrete hormones, you'll get a positive pregnancy test and may have early pregnancy symptoms, but an ultrasound will show an empty gestational sac. In other cases, the embryo does develop for a little while but has abnormalities that make survival impossible, and development stops before the heart starts beating.

Once your baby has a heartbeat — usually visible on ultrasound at around 6 weeks — your odds of having a miscarriage drop significantly

Answer 2

When the baby your pregnant with can no longer survive. You will bleed and if far enough along youll see blood clots. It is pretty painful.
More likely to happen within the first 12 weeks but can happen at any time.

Answer 3

Miscarriage, or spontaneous abortion, is death and expulsion of a fetus before the child would be viable. If it dies in utero after an age when it would be viable, that is usually termed stillbirth.

It actually is quite common, and researchers estimate that about 50% of all conceptuses are spontaneously lost, often before the first "missed" period.

Answer 4

First I would like to say if you have experienced a miscarriage or some one you know I am sorry for your loss. It is when you are pregant your body expells the fetus, and the fetus dies, and that is called a micarriage.

Answer 5

a miscarriage is when a pregnant female unborn fetus goes through issues to send the baby into distress and in the end the baby lacks the suplements needed to sustain life and gives up and dies. The reason why this is caused because a unborn baby canont sustain life on it's own.

Answer 6

Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or accidental termination of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or the fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined at a gestation of prior to 20 weeks. Miscarriages are the most common complication of pregnancy. The term "abortion" refers to any terminated pregnancy, deliberately induced or spontaneous, although in common parlance it refers specifically to active termination of pregnancy.

Answer 7

When a woman fails to carry a baby to term. It comes out still born.

Answer 8

When a pregnant woman loses the baby while it is still inside of her

Answer 9

Losing a baby before he or she is born,through natural causes.

Answer 10

When the baby in the womb doesn't develop and it dies...or the baby dies immediately after birth!