Every couple who has suffered the tragic loss of a baby knows it can be one the most traumatic experiences ever, especially when its is a miscarriage as no one knows what exactly went wrong.
The experience is a traumatic event for both parents to be put through, but it can be even more harrowing for women who suffer from multiple miscarriages as they feel they have themselves to blame. Well now thankfully their has been a major breakthrough by scientists who have found out why multiple miscarriages happen, and more importantly, they believe they have found a way so they can be prevented.
According to researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK they have discovered that a lack of stem cells in the womb can cause a woman to lose her baby. The lead researcher Jan Brosens, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology told reporters: “We have discovered that the lining of the womb in the recurrent miscarriage patients we studied is already defective before pregnancy,” “I can envisage that we will be able to correct these defects before the patient tries to achieve another pregnancy. In fact, this may be the only way to really prevent miscarriages in these cases.”
It is understood the extraordinary findings were discovered after scientists tested samples from 183 women’s womb linings. The subsequent results showed that women who had three consecutive miscarriages had a reduced number of stem cells in their womb lining. The remarkable discovery, has led scientists to already begin developing strategies to increase the function of these stem cells, piloting them in spring 2016.
“Our focus will be two-fold,” Siobhan Quenby, a co-author of the study told reporters. “First, we wish to improve the screening of women at risk of recurrent miscarriage by developing new endometrial tests. “Second, there are a number of drugs and other interventions, such as endometrial ‘scratch’, a procedure used to help embryos implant more successfully, that have the potential to increase the stem cell populations in the womb lining.”
Hopefully this new breakthrough will help prevent the agony of all those couples who experience such a traumatic loss.
