Skip to main content

17 Miscarriages

Image
By
She's is the Queen. Literally. She was a queen, a queen of Great Britain and a queen of miscarriages. Well actually she was, Queen ascended to her throne in 1702, at the time she ruled England, Scotland and Ireland, and it was she who untied England and Scotland. Queen Ann's legacy was destined to be historical rather than genetic as her obstetrical history was very poor. We have never established what her medical problems was, perhaps a double uterus, uterine fibroids, infections, or something more complex such as antiphospholipid syndrome, but she never produced an heir although she had many pregnancies. Queen Anne of England had so many miscarriages she would have been labeled a habitual aborter in our time. We label those who have three or more miscarriages a habitual aborter. In truth, they are extremely common in fertile as well as those who never have a birth to term. Actually once you have 2 miscarriages your chance of miscarrying again is roughly 30%. 80% of miscarriages are in the first trimester of pregnancy, as were hers. Each week you make it in pregnancy the risk of miscarriage decreases. Queen Anne began her rein with 4 miscarriages, and by the end of her rein she had at least 17 miscarriages, and no heir to the throne, ending her line of ascension. Queen Anne, thus by producing no heirs, went from being the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, to ending the line of Stuarts. Bleeding in early pregnancy is common, between 1/4 and 1/5 women have bleeding and about half of these pregnancies will end in a miscarriage by 20 weeks of pregnancy. The causes of miscarriage are many, although some will remain undiagnosed. Most gynos won't have you performing an evaluation of why you are miscarrying until you have had the first 3 or more early pregnancy losses. Miscarriage risk roughly doubles between the ages of 20 and 40. "Unexplained" infertility and "unexplained" miscarriages may also just be the consequence of ovarian aging. With about 10% of women experiencing early menopause before the age of 45. Recent studies showing a decline in fertility about 13 years before the true age of menopause, meaning that these 10% of women would start to experience ovarian aging by 32 and accelerated infertility by around the age of 37. Have you had a miscarriage, was a cause found? For instance, did your gyno check the age of your ovaries? 
Labels:

Comments

  1. Anne (Tripe) CrossmanJanuary 30, 2010 at 1:08 PM

    She was quite a tragic figure personally but her reign was quite eventful. Go to www.mylifeasqueenanne.blogspot.com for more info, should you be interested.
    Regards
    Anne C.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Gyno GabApril 11, 2010 at 5:19 AM

    Love those history notes. When they contain birthing facts and gyno history, even better, thanks!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for your comments and questions. WE hope you will buy our book, https://www.gynogab.com/shop This blog is not intended to replace medical care, but is informational only. We hope you will become a follower or visit Womens Health Practice. We offer a variety of unique services including MonaLisa Touch, Coolsculpting, Labiaplasty, and Gynecoloigic Clinical Research Trials. For more information on menopause see

Popular posts from this blog

Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

By
Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously.  It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods  Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...
311 comments
Read more

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

By
If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...
647 comments
Read more

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

By
Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...
199 comments
Read more