Pregnant woman working causes early miscarriage!!!

Yes, the work of a pregnant woman causes miscarriage. A new study concluded that pregnant women who work at least two night shifts in one week may be more likely to miscarry in the following week.

“Women who work night shifts are exposed to light at night that affects the circadian clock and reduces the secretion of the hormone melatonin,” Louise Mullenberg Begtrap, who led the study, said in an email. "The importance of this hormone has been shown in the success of pregnancy, perhaps by protecting the function of the placenta," she added.

Begtrap, a researcher in the department of occupational and environmental medicine at Bisbeeper and Frederiksberg Hospital in Copenhagen, and colleagues followed up on pregnancies with
22744 female employees in the public sector, most of whom work in Danish hospitals.

The researchers reported in a report published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health that they found that 740 women miscarried out of 10047 women who worked some night shifts between the third and twenty-first week of pregnancy.

As for the remaining 12697 women in the study who did not work night shifts, 1149 of them had a miscarriage.

Many confusing factors

After accounting for age, body mass index, smoking, number of preterm births and miscarriages, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that working two or more nights shifts or more in one week from the eighth to 32nd week of pregnancy was associated with a XNUMX% increase in the risk of miscarriage in Next week.

But Ziv Williams, chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, says the researchers' association is not evidence that night work causes miscarriage. "This was not a randomized trial," he added. "There are a lot of confusing factors like this."

He also said: “This kind of data is not strong enough to convince people that they need to change their lifestyles... My concern is that women who have had a miscarriage will think that night work is the cause of the miscarriage, we have already seen a lot of women suffer from feelings of guilt Because they had a miscarriage.

He added that even if working night shifts could be shown to increase the risk of miscarriage, "this risk is very small, and stopping the night shift would not have a significant impact on reducing the rates of miscarriage.