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...hell. Irving's younger son cut the honeymoon short by running away from his mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
...early childhood of 40 anorexic girls and 40 healthy girls, suggests that the behavior of overprotective, anxious mothers can contribute to their daughters' eventual anorexia. These anxiety-ridden mothers may share the fear of losing their daughters; 25 percent of the anorexic girls' mothers had experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth before their daughters were born, as opposed to only 7.5 percent of the healthy girls' mothers...
Hauser's sense of wonder was tempered with serious concern. Multiple pregnancies frequently end in miscarriage or stillbirth, and the risk multiplies with the number of fetuses. While septuplets have been delivered a handful of times, in no case have they all lived more than a few days or weeks. So Hauser, along with the McCaugheys' perinatologists, Drs. Paula Mahone and Karen Drake, patiently explained to the McCaugheys the standard option in such a situation: they could, if they chose, undergo "selective reduction"--a medical euphemism for the aborting of several fetuses so the others would stand a better chance...
...addition to examining childhood leukemia, the team studied the instances of reproductive disorders, including miscarriage and stillbirth as well as other forms of cancer...
While they found no relation between the amount of exposure to contaminated water and miscarriage, they concluded there is a positive correlation for perinatal deaths (stillbirth and death within a week of birth), birth defects, including Down's syndrome, and chromosomal abnormalities...