Are there certain activities that cause early pregnancy loss?
- In almost every case, miscarriage is not a woman’s fault.
- This is important to understand.
- Miscarriage usually is a random event.
- Working, exercising, stress, arguments, having sex, or having used birth control pills before getting pregnant do not cause miscarriage.
- Few medications can cause miscarriage.
- Morning sickness—the nausea and vomiting that is common in early pregnancy—also does not cause miscarriage.
- Some women who have had a miscarriage believe that it was caused by a recent fall, blow, fright, or stress. In most cases, this is not true.
- It may simply be that these things happened to occur around the same time and are fresh in the memory.