Top 5 Reasons For Miscarriage

A misscarriage can be disturbing and depressing, and have multiple medical reasons. Arundhati Nath speaks to experts to find out what causes a miscarriages

- Arundhati Nath

A baby brings joy and cheer to a mother’s life. All those tiring visits to the gynaecologist, the anxiety and mood swings, even the pain of labour seems to vanish in the wink of an eye on the mere sight of one’s newborn. Unfortunately, some pregnancies end even before a woman realizes that she has conceived. Pregnancies which automatically terminate during the first three months of pregnancy are more common and are called early miscarriages. Let us look at the top five reasons for the miscarriage to understand them better:

CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES: A large number of miscarriages in early pregnancy are caused by abnormalities in chromosomes. Humans have 46 pairs of chromosomes, 23 received from each parent. If there’s any abnormality in the chromosomes after the meeting of the sperm and the egg cell, it can lead to an early miscarriage. Dr. Anita K Mohan, consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at Fortis Hospital, Bengaluru, says, “Nature decides to stop the growth of any pregnancy that has abnormal chromosomes. The most common causes are damaged egg cell, sperm or the zygote.”