Unborn Babies

by YoursChelbie 3 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  YoursChelbie

  I just finished browsing a website and it turns out that miscarriages are most frequent during the first 12 week following conception.

  I thought this was was very interesting--- but then it went on to say that the heart is beating and fully functional at the ripe age of only 6 weeks (a mere month and a half) after conception! This is so amazing to me. Before the baby has a brain, she/he has a heart.

  My question is, do you know of any cases where a woman lost her baby during those first 12 weeks of pregnancy due to extreme emotional stress?

  Can a negative environment or lack of emotional support cause the death of her unborn baby?

  YoursChelbie
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  caligirl

  I don't really think that environment can be blamed for miscarriages. Women all over the world conceive and give birth in adverse, stressful, negative environments. Also, plenty of women have no emotional support system and still have healthy, normal pregnancies. Miscarriage knows no social or economic status. To be fair, looking at the other side of the coin, I would suppose that since stress can have a huge effect on health, and hormones are one area that can be affected by extreme stress, I would say that it is probably possible for stress to cause a womans body to be unable to maintain the proper hormone balance to sustain a pregnancy. But I think that by far the vast majority of miscarriages are probably caused by a physical problem with the baby, making it impossible for it to develop normally.

  I am more inclined to believe that there is a problem with the baby causing it to cease development, or that there is a physical reason in the mother causing her body to be unable to maintain a pregnancy at that particular time, for whatever reason, through no fault of her own.
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  Yerusalyim

  All the docs I've talked to seem to think stress can cause miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy.
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  SheilaM

  There are many contributing factors stress being one of them