The most painful thing that can ever happen to a pregnant mother is watching her pregnancy being aborted through a miscarriage. It is increasingly difficult to bear when the pregnancy is the first issue.

So, what is miscarriage? Medically, miscarriage is defined as the spontaneous abortion of the fetus before the 20th week of the pregnancy.

Most times, the signs and symptoms of miscarriage is mistaken for a late mensuration. National Institutes of Health reported that ‘about half of all fertilized eggs die and are washed away spontaneously. This means that a pregnant mother can loss her pregnancy even before she recognizes that she is pregnant.

Miscarriages can be divided into four, namely:

Threatened Abortion:

This refers to a pregnancy threatened with bleeding before the 20th week of the pregnancy.

Incomplete Abortion:

The pregnancy has partially flushed away, leaving a part of it behind. Retained products maybe part of the fetus, placenta or membrane.

Inevitable Abortion:

This is when the pregnancy is still intact but the medical personal has observed that a miscarriage will definitely occur.

Complete Abortion:

All products of the pregnancy has being washed out. The miscarriage has occurred.

SYMPTOMS:

Like every other medical problem, miscarriages will give room for our body to alert us on the impending danger, it is advised that a pregnant woman should seek her Obstetric health care provider even if the symptom experienced is just mild and not related to miscarriage.

Bleeding
Back Pain
Weakness
Fever
Abdominal pain
Severe stomach Cramps.

CAUSES:

Miscarriages may occur for many reasons, some of them includes:

Genetic
Uterine
Hormonal Abnormalities
Reproductive tract infections
Tissue injection
Endocrine and immune dysfunction
Endometriosis
Psychogenetic factors

Other risk factors that can cause miscarriage includes:

1. Cervical Incompetency:

This mainly occurs if when the woman has gotten her cervix uterine wall bruised while trying to evacuate an unwanted baby during her unmarried days. The cervix becomes wider as a result of the abortion she is trying to perform. I most cases this act affects the woman in later years because the wide cervix will not be able to hold the pregnancy intact within the body, and as it grows, it will fall off like fruits do when they are ripe. This is not applicable to only women who had aborted babies some time ago in their lives but it can just occur like that in any woman.

2. Hypothyroidism:

This is a state whereby the thyroid hormone is produced insufficiently in the thyroid gland.

3. Smoking: The possibility of a miscarriage during pregnancy is increased if the woman is a smoker, and further increases if the husband is a smoker too.

4. Prevention and Treatment:

Presently, there is no method to prevent or treat a complete miscarriage, but if the miscarriage is still of the inevitable or threatened type, the health care provider will perform a pelvic exam. Identifying the cause of the miscarriage can help treat it and even prevent a recurrent one.

Bed rest is usually advised. Then after, some tests will be carried out to determine the cause the actual cause of the miscarriage. The treatment will now be based on the result from the test. If the miscarriage occurred because of Hormonal imbalance, the insufficient hormone is administered immediately, if it is because of cervical incompetence, the cervix is sutured using cervical cerlage, a surgical technique that reinforces the cervix by placing sutures on the top of the opening on the cervix so as to narrow down the cervical canal.

At most, when bleeding continues, it is advised to completely remove the fetus whether it is due or not so as to save the woman’s life.

Source
http://www.naijanovaz.com/miscarriages-symptoms-causes-prevention-treatments.html

Damn men, the article was long beside there are some miscarriage that has the hand of juju involve i wonder why u did'nt put it on the list of causes of miscarriage. There are also spiritual probe involve even though amadioha, ogun and sango is involve.

I disagree with your opinion on the incompetent cervix part. Its not caused by abortion in all cases. In such situation, a cerclage has to be peformed to enable the cervix remain closed for the duration of the pregnacny.

dominique: I disagree with your opinion on the incompetent cervix part. Its not caused by abortion in all cases. In such situation, a cerclage has to be peformed to enable the cervix remain closed for the duration of the pregnacny.

I never said that it is only caused by abortion. read well

jay clinics: This is not applicable to only women who had aborted babies some time ago in their lives but it can just occur like that in any woman.