What causes preterm labour"
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When she was 30 weeks pregnant, Natalie Séguin-Brilliant woke up with excruciating cramping and pain, and her midwife told her to head to the hospital right away. While some cramping during pregnancy can be normal, Séguin-Brilliant was pregnant with twins, which means she was high-risk?and preterm labour was a definite possibility.
It turns out, one of her babies had its foot on her cervix, and she was already one centimetre dilated. By the time she was transferred to a hospital specializing in high-risk pregnancies, she was three centimetres dilated. Her baby girls were born shortly afterward by emergency C-section.
Almost eight percent of babies in Canada are born before 37 weeks, the point when they are considered full-term. Being pregnant with twins is just one of the risk factors of preterm delivery. Here?s a look at some of the common causes of having your baby earlier than expected. Carrying multiples
When you?ve got more than one baby in your uterus, it behaves as though the pregnancy is further along than it actually is. ?It?s being stretched to a certain capacity, which can bring on the preterm labour contractions that lead into true labour,? says Christy Pylypjuk, a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. She adds that the extra stretching can increase the chance that the rupture of membranes will happen early as well. Carrying multiples also increases your chances of having problems with the placenta...
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