Apparently though, many pregnancies end far before this point, though no one seems exactly sure how often. Estimates are up to 50% but those miscarriages you would never know occur. These would include the egg being released after it has been implanted. This happens so often though that most women only experience a slightly heavier period.
What we learn from all of this is that miscarriage is very common, this sounds scary, but the numbers of 10-15% means that only 1-2 out of 10 pregnancies that actually show up as positive on a home test will miscarry. Most women do not get pregnant 10 times in their lives, so your chances are even smaller of having a pregnancy that will fail while you are aware of it.
For those that still worry about miscarriage, here is some helpful news:
- 80% of miscarriages happen within the first trimester and as Dr. Michael Roizen (author of YOU: Having a Baby ) states, most of these are due to chromosonal issues that would not produce a live birth.
- Once a heartbeat is present and considered normal the likelihood of miscarriage is very low between 4-13% with those who have bleeding at the higher end, and those without at the lower end.
- Additionally if you have had no previous miscarriage your risk is lower.
- If you are under age 30 years old, your risk is between 10-15%, after 30 the risk raises slowly but can get up to 33% by age 42.
Articles I Used to Write this Post:
http://www.sharecare.com/question/when-miscarriages-likely-to-happen
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=1646226&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://www.dfwivf.com/miscarriage.html
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/miscarriage.html
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