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Which term means the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy 20 or more weeks after the pregnancy began?
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I am a Labor & Delivery Nurse - We Call It A Fetal Demise. A Baby is not Viable until 23-24 weeks, but it is not just termed a miscarriage.
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What term means the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy 20 or more weeks after the pregnancy began?
If you lose a baby after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it's called a stillbirth. If you lose it in the first 20 weeks, it's miscarriage.
Death of an embryo or fetus in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy is called?
The death of an embryo or fetus in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy is called a spontaneous abortion.
Miscarriage means loss of an embryo or fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy Most miscarriages occur during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy The medical term for miscarriage is spontaneous abortion?
That's correct on all counts.
What is early pregnancy loss?
The traditional designations are: During the first trimester - abortion (spontaneous abortion, if you want to avoid ambiguity) During the second trimester - miscarriage During the third trimester - stillbirth
Is it possible to be pregnant if your period was two weeks late with blood clots but when you took a hpt it was positive?
it is likely that you had a spontaneous miscarriage, which means you were pregnant but miscarried and that's why your hpt came out positive (the pregnancy hormone needs a while to get out of your system after having miscarried)
What is the normal pregnancy numbers of days?
physicians normally guage a pregnancy in terms of weeks, 40 weeks. What 40 weeks means is from the day of your LMP (last menstrual period). 40 weeks: 40weeks * 7days/week = 280days for a normal pregnancy
You saw your period today after 2 months pregnant is that a miscarriage?
No. Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation, or about 5 month pregnant.
What does it mean when you lightly bleed the first few weeks of a pregnancy?
it means your on your periord.....
You began showing showing at 6 weeks but now im not at all is that normal?
Women do not begin "showing" a pregnancy at 6 weeks. At that point, your uterus is still in your pelvis.
How early can you begin to feel symptoms of pregnancy?
I began getting sore, crabby, intensely emotional, and extremely fatigued at about 4 weeks. A pregnancy test at 6 weeks, and a doctors visit and ultrasound at 7 weeks confirmed. But I hear all pregnancies are different, so it may be different for you.
How many weeks in pregnancies?
There should be at least be 40 weeks in pregnancy.
How weeks is complete pregnancy?
a full term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks
