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[chilimuffin]

Soapbox topic of the day: Miscarriage

Comments

why miscarriages

[anonymous]

I just stumbled on your blogs. i am assuming that chilimuffin and ubergeek are one and the same?
have you done much reading in evolutionary medicine?
it seems to me the best explanation for most miscarriages is that our bodies have the ability to detect when something is going wrong with the pregnancy or the fetus and terminate them. the best evidence for this is the high percentage of genetic abnormalities found in spontaneous abortuses. and those are only the abnormalities we can already detect, there are probably many more we are yet unaware of. also my best digging shows that the rate is upwards of 30%.
i find that this explanation can be very reassuring to patients. it is not that something went wrong, something went right. your bodies error detecting system is working. try again.

you might be interested in: http://evolutionarymedicine.blogspot.com/

thank you for your interesting and intelligent posts.
Bill

Re: why miscarriages

[chilimuffin]

Hi Bill! Yes, this is my more personal blog (which is why you see so few of the posts, most of them are filtered). Admittedly, I've been remiss everywhere but here, though I keep the ubergeek site in the hopes that someday I'll get back on the saddle.

I haven't done much reading in evolutionary medicine, but thanks for the blog link - now I will!

And I like your patient advice. It sounds like something I may borrow (if you don't mind) for the future.

[soror]

[chilimuffin]

That's a good point - the people that often should be at the ER are often not (and the reverse is also true), usually due to mis-information (I'd like to think) compounded with independence. I'll have to mull that over as a possible future UGT post. Thanks.