Women Who Conceive Within 6 Months Less Likely to Miscarry Again

How soon until we can try again? This is one of the first questions that women who have experienced a miscarriage will ask their doctor. And a new study suggests that there is no reason for many women to delay getting pregnant after a miscarriage. According to a new study, the sooner a woman conceives again, the better her chances of having a healthy pregnancy.

Specifically, women who conceive within six months after a miscarriage are less likely to miscarry again or experience other pregnancy-related complications when compared with women who wait for longer periods of time. The findings appear in the journal BMJ.

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(CNN) — Merely 10 weeks after losing her newborn, Katie Van Tornhout learned she was pregnant again.

“I freaked out,” she said. “I cried. I didn’t want this to happen. … We almost wished to have a miscarriage. We felt it wasn’t right to have this baby.”

Van Tornhout and her husband were mourning the loss of their 5-week old girl, Callie, to whooping cough. Still stunned from her death in January, her parents had no immediate intention to conceive again.

But life had other plans.

Feeling shocked and unprepared, Van Tornhout also worried that other people would think her pregnancy was to forget or replace Callie.

“You can never replace a child, whether they’re here for six minutes or 16 years,” Van Tornhout said. “People think you can get another one. It’s not the same.”

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A recent study shows the evidence for a link between miscarriage and psoriasis. Acubalance Wellness Centre presents a free public talk April 26 and 27 in Vancouver on how Chinese medicine can treat psoriasis, boost fertility and reduce the risk of recurrent miscarriage.

Vancouver, Canada (PRWEB) April 26, 2010 — Acubalance Wellness Centre presents a free public talk on Chinese medicine and the connection between psoriasis, infertility and recurrent miscarriage, on April 26 and 27.

In a recent study, Dr. Zinaida Lima of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAD/18962 shows that pregnant women with psoriasis have a greater risk of:

-   Preterm birth
-   Spontaneous abortion
-   Preeclampsia
-   Placenta previa
-   Ectopic pregnancy

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(CNN) — Lee Robinson wasn’t all that excited about having a baby. It’s not that she didn’t want one, it’s just that she and her husband, Claude, were happy with their busy lives in Thomson, Georgia, where she’s a high school teacher and he’s a caterer.

Life rolled merrily along until one day, at age 44, Robinson discovered to her great shock that she was pregnant. When not one but two pregnancy tests confirmed the news, she plastered herself to the internet to figure out how risky this pregnancy was for her and her baby.

What she found online wasn’t comforting. A slew of statistics about the high risks of birth defects for the baby and pregnancy-related diseases for her scared the wits out of her.

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Michelle Greenfield has good reason to call Dr. Arthur F. Haney “the best doctor in the world”: His specialty treatment for preventing pregnancy losses caused by a weakened, short or insufficient/incompetent cervix led to Greenfield’s full-term delivery of her healthy son, Shane Daniel, almost a year ago.

Once Greenfield realized the miscarriage (at 22 weeks) on Jan. 23, 2008 was the result of her cervix opening prematurely — called cervical insufficiency or incompetent cervix — she sought Haney’s opinion on transabdominal cerclage (TAC), which allows placement of a small synthetic band high on the cervix preventing it from opening prematurely (a cause of second trimester loss).

View the full article at The Chicago Sun Times