Factor Increasing The Risk Of Stillbirth

Factor Increasing The Risk Of Stillbirth.
Women who forty winks on their backs in the later months of pregnancy may have a less higher risk of stillbirth if they already have other risk factors, a renewed study suggests. Experts stressed that the findings do not prove that sleep position itself affects stillbirth risk. "We should be guarded in interpreting the results," said Dr George Saade, governor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. "We can't conclude that sleeping on the back causes stillbirth, or that sleeping on your pretentiousness will prevent it," said Saade, who was not tangled in the study.

It is, however, plausible that back-sleeping could contribute. Lying on the back can exacerbate sleep apnea, where breathing again and again stops and starts throughout the night, and if a fetus is already vulnerable, that reduced oxygen teem could conceivably boost the odds of stillbirth. Dr Adrienne Gordon, the lead researcher on the study, agreed that if drop position contributes to stillbirth, it would probably be only if other risk factors are present, such as impaired swelling of the fetus.

And "Stillbirth is much more complicated than one risk factor," said Gordon, a neonatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. But if rest position does matter that would be powerful because it can be changed. Stillbirth refers to a pregnancy loss after the 20th week. According to the March of Dimes, about one in 160 pregnancies ends in stillbirth - with childbirth defects, poor fetal increase and problems with the placenta among the causes.