Finding
out you're expecting is a joyous experience, but the first three months
can be wracked with anxiety - after all, that's the time frame when
most miscarriages occur. Many moms-to-be bond with their unborn
children the instant those two pink lines appear on the pregnancy test,
and a miscarriage can be deeply upsetting. But what if there were a way
for scientists to know which pregnancies would make it to term, and
which would result in natural miscarriage?
British researchers have developed preliminary index to predict which pregnancies will end in miscarriage - and they're batting a pretty high average. Using no equipment, the doctors were able to say with 94 percent accuracy which pregnancies were the most likely to succeed, so that they could focus on those moms-to-be whose pregnancies were high-risk, reports The Los Angeles Times.
"After studying 112 high-risk women during their sixth through 10th weeks of pregnancy, the researchers determined that the amount of a woman's bleeding and her level of the hormone chorionic gonadotrophin could be combined into a 'pregnancy viability index' that accurately predicted which women would go on to continue their pregnancies," explains the paper.
Would you want to know if your pregnancy was high-risk in the first three months? How would you react is if doctors told you it was likely you'd have a miscarriage?
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