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Pregnancy is a significant event in a woman’s life, and emotional attachment to the pregnancy and developing baby may begin early in the first trimester. For most women, experiencing a first trimester loss is a difficult and vulnerable time. When it occurs, the grief can be as profound as for any perinatal or other major loss [1]. Spontaneous abortion (a pregnancy that ends spontaneously before the fetus has reached a viable gestational age) is among the most common complications of pregnancy. Approximately 12–15% of recognized pregnancies and 17–22% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion [2, 3].

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Weintraub, A.Y., Sheiner, E. (2011). Early Pregnancy Loss. In: Sheiner, E. (eds) Bleeding During Pregnancy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9810-1_2

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