Study Finds No Reason to Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage
10 August 2010
Miscarriages take place in as many as 20 percent of known pregnancies
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth week. This happens to as many as twenty percent of known pregnancies.
Experts say many pregnancies end before a woman even knows she was pregnant.
Miscarriages are usually caused by chromosome problems that prevent the baby from developing. The online medical encyclopedia MedlinePlus says these problems are usually unrelated to the genes of either parent.
But whatever the reason, the loss of a pregnancy can be heartbreaking. And sometimes the advice that follows can be painful, too.
Some women are told to wait before trying to get pregnant again. A two thousand five report from the World Health Organization advised waiting at least six months. Some doctors advise a longer wait.
But a new study from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland found no need to delay. Researchers examined the medical records of thirty thousand women. These women visited Scottish hospitals from nineteen eighty-one to two thousand.
They had miscarriages in their first known pregnancies and became pregnant again.
The study found that eighty-five percent of women who waited less than six months to get pregnant had live births. That was compared to seventy-three percent of women who waited more than two years.
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