One in ten women will experience a miscarriage in her lifetime.
For couples, this intimate drama can be accompanied by a question: how long should you wait before trying a new attempt at conception?
Since 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends observing a period of at least 6 months after a miscarriage or an abortion to become pregnant again.
From a medical point of view, spacing between pregnancies allows a complete restoration of ovarian functioning but also to deal with a possible underlying infection or inflammation to subside.
However, a new Australian study, published Tuesday, November 22 in the journal
PLOS Medicine
, and relayed by the
Guardian
, comes to question this advice.
The authors, researchers from the University Curtin School of Population Health, suggest that restarting the parental plan within 3 months after an aborted pregnancy does not present an increased risk of perinatal complications.
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Less risk before 3 months
To reach this conclusion, the scientists looked at national health data in Norway, specifically analyzes of 49,058 births after miscarriage, and 23,707 births after abortion, all of which occurred between 2008 and 2016. Comparing these documents detailed with those of previous studies looking at birth spacing, the team from the University of Curtin School of Population Health found that women who were pregnant soon after a miscarriage or abortion had no more likely to give birth prematurely, or to have babies too small or too large for their gestational age, or to develop preeclampsia or gestational diabetes.
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Even better, the risk of birth complications after less than 3 months between pregnancies is slightly lower than after 6 to 11 months (8.6% versus 10.1%), note the researchers.
On the other hand, the team specifies that women who had a pregnancy within 3 months of an abortion presented a slightly increased risk, but statistically not significant, of retarded growth of the baby for its gestational age (SGA), compared to those pregnant after 6 to 11 months (11.5% VS 10%).
An individual deadline and subject to medical supervision
"We think our results are reassuring for women or families who attempt pregnancy shortly after a miscarriage or induced abortion," said Gizachew Tessema, researcher in charge of the study, in the columns of the
Guardian .
.
The scientist also calls on the WHO to correct and update their recommendations.
“Our observation is that you can have your children whenever you want, but there are reservations, she nuances.
First, it takes at least some time to recover from the previous pregnancy.
(Then) it varies from person to person, but if I had to pick a number it would be at least six weeks.”
In any case, Gizachew Tessema recommends that anyone concerned “consult a general practitioner or an obstetrician when planning (again) a pregnancy”.
