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  2. Recurrent miscarriage - Wikipedia

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    Recurrent miscarriage or recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is the spontaneous loss of 2-3 pregnancies that is estimated to affect up to 5% of women. The exact number of pregnancy losses and gestational weeks used to define RPL differs among medical societies. [ 1 ]

  3. Miscarriage - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 15% of recurrent miscarriages are related to immunologic factors. [95] The presence of anti-thyroid autoantibodies is associated with an increased risk with an odds ratio of 3.73 and 95% confidence interval 1.8–7.6. [96] Having lupus also increases the risk of miscarriage. [97]

  4. Prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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    Many screening tests are inaccurate, so one worrisome test result frequently leads to additional, more invasive tests. If prenatal testing confirms a serious disability, many parents are forced to decide whether to continue the pregnancy or seek an abortion. The "option" of screening becomes an unexpected requirement to decide. [citation needed]

  5. Colorado Maternity Leave: Everything Expectant Parents Need ...

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    New moms who work in Colorado will be able to take paid leave beginning in 2024. Getty. Colorado became the ninth state in the country (plus Washington D.C.) to pass a paid family leave law on ...

  6. Premarital medical examination - Wikipedia

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    A poster encouraging premarital syphilis blood tests, created shortly before New York state began mandating premarital testing in July 1938. [ 8 ] A wave of more effective laws requiring blood tests for both partners were passed by state legislatures between 1935 and 1950, beginning with Connecticut's "premarital examination law", which served ...

  7. Abortion in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Colorado became a territory in 1861, [10] and its General Laws included a ban on abortion: [11] "[E]very person who shall administer substance or liquid, or who shall use or cause to be used any instrument, of whatsoever kind, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall thereof be duly convicted, shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three ...

  8. Medical imaging in pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Miscarriage or none (all or nothing) 50 - 100 [1] 4 to 10 weeks: 2 to 8 weeks: Structural birth defects: 200 [1] Growth restriction: 200 - 250 [1] 10 to 17 weeks: 8 to 15 weeks: Severe intellectual disability: 60 - 310 [1] 18 to 27 weeks: 16 to 25 weeks: Severe intellectual disability (lower risk) 250 - 280 [1]

  9. Immune tolerance in pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Immune tolerance in pregnancy or maternal immune tolerance is the immune tolerance shown towards the fetus and placenta during pregnancy.This tolerance counters the immune response that would normally result in the rejection of something foreign in the body, as can happen in cases of spontaneous abortion.