eli5 What is a miscarriage? Doctor malpractice involved? Just bad luck? Does the baby always die? Does the mom always die? Bad health choices?
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a misscarriage is in rather blunt terms a pregnancy that for w/e reason did not come to term(was somehow trminated before the child reached a state where survival outside of the womb was possible).the Child invariably dies(otherwise this would be called a premature birth.)
it can have a number of reasons, but only a few of them are pointed at the people involved: it could as simple as bad luck(whch is mangified by conditions like the age of the mother or massive truamal ike an accident), or genetics(ie: the child inherited a condition from the parents that is invariably lethal).
generally the mother, while not having a fun time for sure, is not normally at risk unless this happened fairly late into the pregnancy(but not late enough to save the child)tho not free from danger due to complications due ot bloodloss , and in places where medical/prenatal care is available mothers get screened them oment its known they are pregnant for any conditions that woudl endanger them during it(and if such is determined might present options that in extreme cases can include termination of said pregnacy).
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