“Today I will discussing something that occurs to over fifteen percent of known pregnancies and that is spontaneous abortions, more commonly known as miscarriages. A miscarriage is defined as the loss of an embryo or fetus in the first twenty weeks of pregnancy or the first trimester. The rate of miscarriages could even be higher, however, due to what is considered a “silent miscarriage”, which is when the miscarriage occurs before the woman even knows that she is pregnant, it is difficult to get a more accurate number. Spontaneous abortions tend to occur due to one or more serious or fatal abnormalities. Other factors that have been linked are a mother’s age at the time of pregnancy. The older the woman is, the higher the risk. Abnormalities