What is pregnancy loss?

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Pregnancy loss is the death of an unborn baby at any time during pregnancy. It is estimated that pregnancy loss occurs in over half of all early pregnancies. Most of these occur so early that the mother does not even know she is pregnant. Although 15 to 20 percent of diagnosed pregnancies are lost in the first or second trimesters of pregnancy, nearly all occur during the first trimester. Only about 1 percent of diagnosed pregnancies are lost after 16 weeks. Pregnancy loss includes:

blighted ovum – pregnancy loss before 8 weeks in which the egg is fertilized but never develops into an embryo.
miscarriage – early pregnancy loss, also called spontaneous abortion.
ectopic pregnancy – the development of the fetus outside the uterus, in a fallopian tube, cervical canal, or the pelvic or abdominal cavity.
molar pregnancy – an abnormal development of placental and fetal tissues, occurring in about one out of 1,000 to one out of 1,500 pregnancies.
stillbirth – when the fetus dies before birth.
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