Robin writes:

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I am sure that traumatic loss of a first child can cause problems withsubsequent pregnancies I know personally of case where in WWII a woman gavebirth at 7 months trapped in cellar under a bombed out house. Of coursethere would have been little hope for such a premature child in 1944 in anycase. She went to lose every further pregnancy at about seven months. Sheadopted my sister in private arrangement.


Your sister's adoptive mother might have delivered her first child after only
seven months of pregnancy regardless of circumstances. In other words, the
trauma of being in the cellar during WWII might not have been an influencing
factor at all in her body's tendency to go into labor after just seven months
of pregnancy.


P2P

in article 20040822013909.26045.00002079@mb-m28.aol.com, Palms2pines at
palms2pines@aol.comh8spam wrote on 22/8/04 6:39 am:
Robin writes: <snip> I am sure that traumatic loss of a first child can cause problems with subsequent pregnancies I know personally of case where in WWII a woman gave birth at 7 months trapped in cellar under a bombed out house. Of course there would have been little hope for such a premature child in 1944 in any case. She went to lose every further pregnancy at about seven months. She adopted my sister in private arrangement. Your sister's adoptive mother might have delivered her first child after only seven months of pregnancy regardless of circumstances. In other words, the trauma of being in the cellar during WWII might not have been an influencing factor at all in her body's tendency to go into labor after just seven months of pregnancy. P2P

True, but a bit of an unfortunate coincidence don't you think? Just on that
day when she was due her first miscarriage, to top it off the Germans go and
drop a bomb on her.

In my adoptive mothers case I think you could say that, I know of no trauma
to explain the fact that she repeatedly miscarried. If it were possible to
tell I'd lay a bet that those miscarriages were all boys. I rather suspect
that the men in my adoptive father's family had something nasty on the Y
chromosome that caused male foetuses to have a high incidence of
miscarriage. The males in his family tree have consistently fathered about
five girls for every one live born boy.

Robin