Pregnancy after Loss Many women experience pregnancy loss and go
on to have other children. The miscarriage rate is difficult to
pinpoint because many miscarriages occur before the woman
realizes she is pregnant. With current technology, a pregnancy
can be (but often is not) diagnosed as early as nine days after
conception, even before a period is missed. Including these
early confirmed pregnancies, as many as 20 to 50 percent of all
pregnancies end in miscarriage. About 15 percent of all
clinically confirmed (by fetal heart rate or ultrasound)
pregnancies end in miscarriage. When you get pregnant again
after a pregnancy loss, you are likely to be very worried about
experiencing another loss. Some women feel extremely nervous
until they pass the point at which the previous pregnancy ended.
Try to take things one day at a time and avoid worrying
unnecessarily. Talk to your physician about your concerns and
discuss any risk factors. The majority of miscarriages are
chromosomally abnormal or have embryos with se