What exactly makes a misscarage(sp) occur. how do you prevent it?

Question

Just curious cuz i never really understood. Is it drinking alcholic drinks? Is it caused by the mother? etc.......

Answer 1

There is no single cause for miscarriage -- miscarriage can occur as a result of chromosomal defects, immunologocial or clotting disorders in the mother, severe trauma, or a host of other reasons. The most frequent cause of early miscarriage is chromosomal abnormality in the embryo, which is not something that is either parent's "fault." The number of things that have to go precisely right for conception to occur and a healthy pregnancy to follow is actually rather amazing, and in some ways it's surprising we manage to procreate at all, much less with the frequency and relative ease with which we do.

Drinking doesn't cause miscarriage, and, in general, there is nothing you can do to prevent an early miscarriage. It is, perhaps, one of the most frustrating and frightening things when you're facing a possible miscarriage in early pregnancy, because all you can do is wait and see.

Miscarriage happens more frequently than most people realize. It used to be the case that doctors did not do any testing of the parents unless/until three consecutive miscarriages occurred, although now many doctors conduct testing after two consecutive miscarriages to see if there is an identifiable and treatable problem. Often there isn't. As someone diagnosed with "recurrent pregnancy loss" I can tell you it is extremely frustrating, for me and for the doctors, because so often no cause IS identified. In which case it's generally chalked up to "chromosomal defects."

If you don't account for so-called chemical pregnancies* the studies indicate that as many as 25 percent of clinically recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage; if chemical pregnancies are taken into account, the incidence may be as high as 50 to 75 percent. (* A chemical pregnancy is a pregnancy that has not yet been confirmed by ultrasound -- basically, it's a very early loss that is experienced by most women before they are even aware of the pregnancy, and is usually experienced as a slightly late, heavier-than-usual period.)

I hope you never have to deal with miscarriage!

Answer 2

Sometimes it is caused by the mother drinking too much alcohol or having a traumatic car accident or fall or something like that, but for the most part miscarriage IS NOT something that the mother did. The vast majority of all miscarriages are due to abnormalities in the baby, whether it is a deformity or chromosomal problem. Most of the time they are not preventable if this is the case. If a doctor thinks you might have a miscarriage, he will put you on bedrest, but if there is truly something wrong with the baby, it just won't stay. Your body knows when something with the baby is not right, and there's nothing you can do about making the baby stay...and even if you could, the baby would probably be stillborn or die after birth. I know a woman who got pregnant with twins then miscarried both of them. The doctors did some investigation of the fetuses and found that both of them had this random, freak accident misallignment of chromosomes that caused them to be terribly deformed.

Answer 3

It can be caused by a multitude of things but if the body recognises that the embryo or foetus is unviable at any stage it will naturallly abort it, most women don't even know that they have had a miscarriage. Five out of six conceptions result in a miscarriage and these usually occur in the first week or two of pregnancy. Much of the time miscarriages are caused by a genetic inviability with the newly conceived embryo or physical causes such as ectopic pregnacies and trauma to the embryo or foetus. Yes, alcoholic drinks are proven to have an adverse effect on a baby, slowing its growth and increasing the chance of a premature birth.

Answer 4

It can be because of toxicity from the mother's use of substances, which can kill a fetus but more likely disrupts the homeostases that tell her body it's okay to maintain a pregnancy. Barring that, they are caused by abnormalities of either the fetus itself (for example, it has the wrong number of chromosomes and stops developing or just dies - it could never have become a baby - this is probably most common) or of the mother's reproductive system (for whatever reason her physiology doesn't continue to support pregnancy).

Answer 5

There is NO way to tell if you are going to miscarry and there is NO way to prevent it.
I have had two miscarriages, nothing I could do but let it happen in distillment and disbelief.

Although you should not be drinking if you are pregnant, if you just found out then do not drink anymore. It will not cause a MC but it will cause all other sorts of problems with a delivered baby!

Answer 6

It's usually caused by there being something wrong with the baby as it's forming. There's nothing that can prevent it that I've heard of. Not drinking or doing drugs will help your chances of having a normal, healthy baby.

Answer 7

Based on statistics, the only reasonable conclusion is that quite a large number of pregnancies "naturally" terminate by miscarriage; while there are many factors that do involve the pregnant party's behaviour or genetics, there are just as many that do not. If you think about about it, your question is of the order of "what do people die of?", there are too many answers for a complete response to be accurate.

Answer 8

There are about 5 million different causes of miscarriages, with even more to be discovered. Your questions is way to broad honey.

Answer 9

i have had to and the causes are unknown. i dont drink or smoke and still lost 2. most miscarriages are unknown

Answer 10

most of the time they don't know what causes it. some sort of fetal abnormality.