ladies, found this site on miscarriage, plus statistic question for DR

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It has some interesting technical/medical info and discusses some of the more controversial and recent theroies surrounding miscarriage, so might be of interest to women here who are researching this.

It had the following quote from an MD, which addresses the statistics we all cling to regarding risk of miscarriage once fetal heart rate is seen. I'd be interested to know if the doctors here agree.

"Let me reassure you that your experience is VERY common. I see similar cases every month in my practice. The problem is that experience with the vaginal probe ultrasound is very limited, and to extrapolate the presence of fetal cardiac activity on vaginal probe ultrasound to previous reassuring statistics about discenment of cardiac activity by abdominal ultrasound (doppler) or earlier auditory auscultation (stethescope) are not valid. Most spontaneous abs occur prior to the 12th week, and a very short time ago, cardiac activity was not discernable prior to the 12th week with any degree of regularity, so the common statement was "Once we hear the fetal heart we don't worry about miscarriage." But now we are using a more sensitive technology and this trueism will not hold up."

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