Women who suffer even one miscarriage seem to be more likely to have complications in their next pregnancy. Researchers from United Kingdom studied 1561 women who had a miscarriage in their first or secondary trimester, 10,549 women who had a previous live birth, 21,118 women who were pregnant for the first time, to find out the major outcomes of miscarriage like pre-eclampsia, threatened miscarriage, malpresentation, induced labour, caesarean delivery, postpartum haemorrhage and manual removal of placenta. Compared with the women with a previous live birth and women with a first pregnancy, the miscarriage group had a higher risk of a variety of adverse outcomes. These included threatened miscarriages, the need to induce labour, instrumental delivery, postpartum haemorrhage and pre-term delivery. The researchers concluded that an initial miscarriage increases the chances of complications in the next pregnancy.
BJOG
January 2009