Miscarriage and Infertility News

How many miscarriage patients can relate to this poor woman's story? Doctors all too frequently don't understand the human side of their work in treating miscarriage sufferers. Whether it's the lingo or the attitude or the all-around lack of sympathy, many medical professionals could stand to learn a thing or two about bedside manner.

When are manufacturers going to be held accountable for product safety? This is not the first time Bisphenol-A has been linked to health issues. Now a Japanese study is saying that women with high levels of this chemical in their bodies are more likely to have a history of miscarriages. Bisphenol-A is a common ingredient in products like baby bottles, toys, and plastic food containers. Lord help us.

Probably one of the most important breakthroughs in miscarriage research in a while, Irish researchers have found that a steroid called prednisolone may drastically decrease the number of miscarriages. The findings are still early, but the study definitely provides hope and evidence that immune system malfunctions may indeed be responsible for a good number of miscarriage cases.

A study by the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in South Korea found that using donated eggs is associated with increased risk of miscarriages. The theory is that the foreign DNA may awaken the mother's immune system, causing an increased likelihood of immune response to the pregnancy.

It's not just the mother's age that can impact the risk of miscarriage. A new study by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research has discovered a link between the father's age and the risk of miscarriage. Apparently, as a man gets older, he becomes more and more likely to have chromosome defects in his sperm.

Further evidence that researchers are taking miscarriages more seriously: a new study plans to look at blood vessel formation in early pregnancy. Evidence exists that repeat miscarriage sufferers may have a tendency toward abnormal blood vessel growth, but researchers currently do not know if this is a cause or merely a side effect of a pregnancy that is doomed to fail.

After a hiatus for personal reasons, this is just a note to say I plan to resume updating this blog with the latest miscarriage news. Watch for more headlines in the near future.

This is a horrible story but finds an ambiguous legal situation. A Michigan teenager is being held for beating his pregnant girlfriend with a baseball bat in order to induce a miscarriage. The problem? She consented to the beating, hoping it would cause the miscarriage -- perhaps to avoid shelling out the bucks for an abortion?

The legal situation is murky since abortion is legal and the girlfriend allowed the beating. No matter how it plays out, it makes me sick to my stomach that anyone could consider doing such a thing. :(

On message boards this past week, I read several threads from irate women who learned that a bill under consideration by the Virginia State Assembly seemed to make it a crime to not report a miscarriage to authorities within 12 hours. The bill author hoped to target instances of "trashcan" babies in which the mothers claimed a miscarriage as the excuse for throwing a baby in the trash. However, the wording of the bill made it such that even first trimester miscarriages were required to be reported to authorities and failure to do so could result in jail time.

Popular blog writer getupgrrl of Chez Miscarriage reported on the story in her highly trafficked blog, and in response, the bill author seems to have come to his senses and decided to reword the bill to more accurately target its intended cause.

What a wonderful story! A woman in Britain ahs given birth after seven miscarriages. This type of story just goes to show that there is always hope and it's important to keep trying. The story does not include much detail on how the woman managed to conquer her recurrent miscarriages battle, but ti sounds like she did get medical attention.

This press release outlines a recent discovery regarding a genetic heart defect that could explain miscarriages in some patients. Cells lacking the protein may be unable to sustain life. It will be interesting to watch this one for developments.

This is a way beyond terrible story. A woman, traumatized by a past miscarriage, strangled a pregnant woman and stole her baby. This is one of the most disgusting crimes I've heard about happening.

Unfortunately, however, I think that it sheds an all too uncomfortable light on the trauma of miscarriage. It's a grief all too much ignored by society. Please...if anyone out there is having thoughts of this nature...get help. You are not in a healthy mental state. This woman was clearly insane. Miscarriage is horrible and it makes you feel like the most lonely person in the world when no one recognizes your grief, but it's not the end of the world. You CAN get through it...without resorting to this kind of horror. :-(