According to the text book Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting by Bigner and Gerhardt (2014), miscarriage is the word known for a pregnancy that ends unplanned during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The reasons why miscarriage happens varies but there is no exact cause and no exact way to tell when and how it can be prevented. Bigner and Gerhardt (2014) also mention that around 10 to15 percent of known pregnancies are miscarriages. This topic is important to discuss because even though 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies seem like a small amount of miscarriages, it is actually a vast majority. Miscarriage is a difficult challenge that both the mother and the father of the unborn fetus have to go through which is why more individuals need to know more about miscarriage. First I will discuss why miscarriage happens and how it can be preventable. Next, I will discuss the impacts of miscarriage on both the mother and the father. Lastly, I will discuss how parents can cope with the loss of their unborn fetus.
Reasons why miscarriage happens and how to prevent miscarriage.
Miscarriages happens because of different reasons. Gerber-Epstein, Leichtentritt, and Benyamini (2009) mention that around one third of females go through one miscarriage in their life. They also mention that in the past decades, there has been more studies in the miscarriage topic since it has become a common issue. Kjaersgaard et al. (2013) mentions that antidepressants can be a cause of
In the United States “1.7% of women aged 15–44 have an abortion” (“Induced Abortion in the United States”). Twenty-one percent of all pregnancies end in abortion (“Induced Abortion in the United States”). Women most commonly have abortions before the end of her first trimester, twelve weeks into the pregnancy, however, abortions may also be performed after the first trimester. Abortions are quite common, but they also lead to numerous issues for the parents such as regret, depression, drug abuse and even suicide. The parent’s choice of abortion has lasting physical and psychological effects on the parents of the aborted child, even years after the abortion process.
Parents develop an ongoing relationship with their unborn child throughout pregnancy stages. With unexpected loss such as a stillborn, parents suddenly feel the event to be surreal. (Ryninks, Roberts-Collins, McKenzie-McHarg, & Horsch, 2014). Parents expressed that stillbirth would never happen to
They then tell the mother that there is no fetal heartbeat on the monitor or the level of HCG decreases in the blood because the baby is not alive. When some of the women find out they decide to have an abortion because it is less stress and it has less health risk. If the woman has to carry until the miscarriage happens the health risk are very high. The women could hemorrhage, or even greater problems like infertility.
Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in America that is centered between advocates that are pro-choice and pro-life. Intentional miscarriages occur when a women induces the termination of a human during pregnancy, the procedure happens during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Pro-life and pro-choice advocates differ in many of their opinions, over the years the government has been trying to deal with the problem/issue, and now there are possible solutions to the issue.
1 in 4 girls have an ectopic pregnancy, which is also called a tubal pregnancy. It is not considered a miscarriage, but it is considered to be in the same category as one. The difference between a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy is that with a miscarriage, the fetus is still growing but along the way something happens. An ectopic pregnancy (tubal pregnancy) is when the fetus is misplaced in a fallopian tube and the tube ruptures which can cause you to bleed out to death. This is very difficult to find since an ultrasound can’t pick it up
The probability of a woman's death is 1/11,000 in abortions after 21 weeks. A mother is not only taking the life of an innocent child, but she is putting herself at risk. For instance, “Dangers and risks of...” Martin Mcatee discusses complications that third-term abortions also come with. There is a high risk of infection to the mother due to surgical instruments being introduced into the mother's uterus, and possible dead tissue of the fetus parts being left behind. Dead tissue left behind after the abortion can enter the mother's bloodstream and result in sepsis, a deadly blood disease. Therefore, abortions can harm both the mother and the fetus, and should not be an option for the
Summary: This article describes how emotionally and physically challenging stillbirth can be to its victims. Stillbirth which is “the birth of an infant that has died in the womb after having survived through at least the first 28 weeks of pregnancy”, is not only challenging for the mother of the baby, but it affects the whole family as well. Per to this article, stillbirth affects about 1 in 200 pregnancy and that’s in the U.S only, because
We were so grieved. We did not know that sometimes the pill allows you to get pregnant but then causes a miscarriage. We thought we could set our own timetable for having children, for example- when we were "financially able," or when we "had all our ducks in a row."
ABS is the cause of many miscarriages, the most common reason is when the umbilical cord is constricted by ABS(17). It is believed that approximately 178 of every 10,000 miscarriages that occur are due to the development of ABS (Amniotic). If the band wraps around the umbilical cord that supplies blood and nutrition to the developing baby, it can cause intrauterine growth retardation (Amniotic). In serious cases, this may lead to fetal death. Children most severely affected have deformities that cannot be repaired. These deformities will eventually lead to death (Amniotic).
Purpose of the Study: Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy that is most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.
The pathway of care for EP and miscarriage have evolved in the recent decades, which have effected on the reporting trends of hospital admissions for EP and miscarriage. Without unified and validated databases of inpatient and outpatients data a national levels, trends of hospital admissions for EP and miscarriage are difficult to estimate, and they are falsely reported. The type of management of EP and miscarriage, and services available at maternity hospitals, such as early pregnancy units, are some of the factors that might influence on differences when reporting incidence rates found in the literature. However, more research is needed to fully understand the socioeconomic and pathways of care factors impact on women’s morbidity when experiencing
Pregnancy is meant to be an exciting happy time; not only for the mother, but for the whole family and friends. So, when a woman miscarries, the psychological impact/ trauma is unbearable and very devastating. The experience and feeling of loss, grief, guilt, and shame caused by a miscarriage can take a toll on everyone. These feelings can also turn into a major depression in some women and possible questions of what could have I done differently, or feeling like you had a hand it in can start to surface.
In our case the couple is facing a recurrent loss, while the woman is 32 years old the man is 40 years old, they have been trying unsuccessfully to have children for two years and five spontaneous abortions have occurred for five conceptions. By using the term recurrent pregnancy loss is typically defined as the occurrence of three or more consecutive pregnancy loss. A pregnancy loss is defined as a clinically-recognized pregnancy involuntarily ending before 20 weeks, we mean the inability of a couple to succeed pregnancy after they try for one year at least especially when the woman is older than the age of 35.Also they mention for the woman to have terminated a pregnancy six years ago and having taken contraceptives until two and a half years
According to The March of Dimes (2016) miscarriage, particularly in the first trimester, has an overall estimated incidence of 10 to 15%. However, the number could be as high as 50% when taking into account pregnancies which had not yet been discovered (March of Dimes,
Health issues affect not only the teen mother but also her child. The health issues that both the mother and the child face may be the biggest issue they go throughout the time of pregnancy and giving birth. Many pregnant teens will suffer some sort of medical complication during pregnancy but that is not always the case though. Some of the mental and physical problems they may face include miscarriages which is the loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy (WebMD), Anemia which is a condition that develops when your blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin (WebMD), having a premature baby, and Postpartum depression which is a depression that women get after giving birth to a child (WebMD). Having a miscarriage is a very frightening thing all pregnant women fear and can be very stressful when