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What is miscarriage?

2 fertility expert(s) answered this question

How is a miscarriage diagnosed?

Many miscarriages occur very early in pregnancy (before you might even know about a pregnancy) and for this reason it is suspected that number is much higher than 10-20% of known pregnancies end un miscarriage.

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Answer from the fertility expert:
Madhavi Gudipati, Consultant OB-GYN, HFEA 'Person Responsible' at Sunderland Fertility Centre

Miscarriage is very common. One in four couples miscarry and this includes both chemical losses and also the clinical pregnancy which we say which was seen on the scan.

Answer from the fertility expert:
Luciano Nardo, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine, CEO & Founder, NOW-fertility

A miscarriage by definition is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 23 weeks of pregnancy. The miscarriage could be an early miscarriage of first trimester miscarriage that happens within the first 12 weeks or the second miscarriage that will be through the end of the 12th week of pregnancy up to week 23 of pregnancy. The miscarriage can happen for different reasons and can have different symptoms and the reasons of miscarriage and the cause and the symptoms of a miscarriage differ according to what stage the miscarriage happened.

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