Researchers believe between 2.3 million and 5.4 million pregnancies are lost every year and the US Vital Statistics report estimates that over one million clinically diagnosed pregnancies are lost every year. Losing a pregnancy is devastating. And yet, statistically, it is incredibly common. While not all loss can be medically explained, quite often, with the proper medical treatment and diagnosis, many pregnancy losses can be prevented. The more women know about loss, the more we can work to lower the statistics and lessen the pain. As with anything else, education is the first step. The article below teaches what to do to prevent pregnancy loses before or after delivery.
The same report, titled Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, however, also found something a little more optimistic: The gap between the number of poor babies and rich babies dying is narrowing over time. Since 1990, there has been a decrease from 12.7 million to 6.3 million deaths in children under the age of 5 — so, in general, things have been improving. But despite the improvements, up to 2.8 million children who are younger than 28 days old still die every year, Medical Daily says.
One of the ways that many deaths could be prevented is simply by breastfeeding; initiating breastfeeding within one hour of birth can lower the risk of neonatal death by 44 percent, UNICEF says.
“The data clearly demonstrate that an infant’s chances of survival increase dramatically when their mother has sustained access to quality health care during pregnancy and delivery,” Geeta Rao Gupta, UNICEF deputy executive director, said in a statement. “We need to make sure that these services, where they exist, are fully utilized and that every contact between a mother and her health worker really counts. Special efforts must also be made to ensure that the most vulnerable are reached.”
The most common cause of early loss is chromosome abnormalities.2 A developing embryo should have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 in total. Chromosomes are said to be “abnormal” when there are more or less than 46, or the structure of at least one chromosome is broken or rearranged. These abnormalities can result in pregnancy loss or birth defects.
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