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Threatened Miscarriage (cont.)

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More than half of women who bleed during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy stop bleeding and have a healthy pregnancy. For the other half of these women, cramping and bleeding worsen and they eventually miscarry.

A woman may not know whether she is going to miscarry when she leaves the emergency department.



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