Understanding Miscarriage: Research Resources for Early Childhood Development

Question
Hi, I was wondering if you could please take a few minutes and give me some info or point me in the right direction. I am in an early childhood development college class first year and am writting a paper on miscarrages. I was lucky to have a pretty easy pregancy with few problems. I am most of my paper complete but would also like to cover the topic of problems that arise that require a induced miscarrage. I am having troble finding info on this subject. The only two I know of are tube pregancy and then molar pregancy. Any examples you can give me would be great, or any terms of pregancies that I can then do futher rescearch on. A few years back my cousin had to have an induced miscarrage at 11 weeks. She was healthy but something was wrong with the baby. I don't know the details of her miscarrage. But know it was not a tube pregancy. Any info you can give me or examples you can give me would be great of early pregancy problems that might require a induced miscarrage.

Answer
There are many reasons for a woman to have an induced abortion. Some are due to the desire to not have any children. Some are due to the diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities (Down's syndrome, etc).  Trophoblastic disease in pregnancy (Molar preganncy) is another reason to empty the uterine cavity. If it is shown that there is some abnormality with the baby that would be detrimental or dangerous to the life of the mother, we also would empty the uterine cavity.  If the fetus has stopped growing or died in utero (missed abortion, fetal demise, ruptured membranes, infectin) it is a cause to empty the uterus. If there is a problem with hemmorrhage due to placenta previa or abruptio placnta, that is also a reason to empty the uterus.