What can cause miscarriages?

Answer 1

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Pregnant women who are stressed out during the first three weeks after conception are nearly three times as likely to miscarry, a new study finds.

"Try to provide yourself with what you consider a good environment. The less stress, the better," advised lead researcher Pablo Nepomnaschy, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

His team published its findings in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The NIH team evaluated 61 women over 12 months, collecting each woman's urine three times a week to check for pregnancy status and levels of cortisol, a stress-linked hormone.

"This study is special in the sense that we include cortisol data," said Nepomnaschy, He added that they did this testing very early in the pregnancy because "most pregnancy losses take place in the first three to four weeks after conception."

Of the 61 women, 22 got pregnant. Nine carried to term and 13 miscarried. Women with increased cortisol levels during the first three weeks of pregnancy were 2.7 times more likely to miscarry, the researchers found.

In all, miscarriages occurred in 90 percent of pregnancies in which the women had increased cortisol levels and in 33 percent of those with normal cortisol levels.

Nepomnaschy said it's unclear why a boost in cortisol might raise miscarriage risks, but he offered a hypothesis: "The body might interpret that [increased cortisol level] as conditions deteriorating, and maybe that might trigger an abortion mechanism."

The women studied were all residents of a rural area of Guatemala. "This population is more alike than any population in the United States," Nepomnaschy said, explaining that he was trying to get a sample of women who were similar in lifestyle, ethnicity and culture to rule out other factors linked to miscarriage. The women studied had similar diets and activity levels, and were all of the same ethnicity.

Another expert, Dr. Mary Stephenson, an obstetrician-gynecologist who runs the Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program at the University of Chicago, said, "It's an intriguing article. Certainly more research is needed. But it is a potential mechanism by which miscarriage may occur."

Other studies have looked at the cortisol/miscarriage link, Stephenson said. "The results have been conflicting. There are some studies in animals that suggest that stress increased the risk of miscarriage. And doctors have long suspected that stress does the same in people."

About 15 percent of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to the March of Dimes. But Stephenson said that statistic usually includes pregnancies that made it to six weeks. "When you count the ones that occur before six weeks, up to half of pregnancies end in miscarriage," she noted.

The best advice for women trying to get pregnant is to de-stress your life before you conceive, she said.

"I talk about this a lot with my patients," Stephenson said. "I recommend that before they get pregnant, they take a serious look at their lifestyle."

And that includes getting enough sleep, so fatigue isn't an issue. "Fatigue is a type of stress," Stephenson said.

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To learn more about miscarriage, visit the March of Dimes.

Answer 2

Miscarriages can be a simple way of the body terminating a pregnancy because things are not developing properly, so sometimes there appears to be no cause at all. However other factors can be alcohol, drugs, early placental abruption, or some kind of physical accident.

Answer 3

a extensive % of the time that's a genetic default with the embryo. maximum docs won't speculate on what reasons it. sure, the justifications you indexed could be a reason, yet numerous women individuals who do those, do provide start to a living infant-so which you would be unable to assert having a single cigarette or having a pitcher of wine will make you miscarry, simply by fact it won't-only up your probability by a fragment. 20% of all pregnancies bring about miscarriage simply by organic reasons-different motives incorporate, trauma to the uterus (motor vehicle twist of destiny, fall, so on.), the order of progression does not take place, such simply by fact the placenta is wrong and does not initiate working, a subchorianic bleed interior the uterus, ext. The checklist is going on and on, there is not any one element that would reason a miscarriage.

Answer 4

Using Aromatherapy oils.. Rosemary and lavendar.
Poor dental health can trigger one.
Caffiene use
Fatty Livers can also cause miscarriages.

Answer 5

Lots of things.

If you keep miscarrying, however, any competent GYN will start investigating to find out the problem. Some such problems have very simply fixes.

Answer 6

IM miscarrying and am sure it is due to a combination of
caffiene, dehydration, excessive salt intake (beef jerkey) and maybe homone surge from sugar. It is not pleasant I can tell u.

Answer 7

Several things:
problems with the formation of the fetus.
hormonal imbalances.
injury to the mother.

Answer 8

Bad chromosomes

Answer 9

There are so many possible causes. An injury, drinking, smoking...

Answer 10

The baby falls out, the baby falls out.