Women who stop smoking during pregnancy are still at risk
of giving birth to premature babies, a new study says.
The study involved 244,000 mothers across NSW also found
that if a mother had one premature baby the risk of her having another one also
increased.
Miscarriage
A miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy.
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Women who had a small first baby were 4.7 times more likely to have a small second baby, the study added. The details are due to appear today in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Source: Medindia
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Pregnancy Labor is caused by series of progressive expulsive contractions by the uterus and results in delivery of the baby from the mothers womb to the outside world.
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