- Women who become pregnant within a year of having a stillbirth are no more likely than those who wait longer to have a second stillbirth, a preterm birth or a small-for-gestational-age baby, a large new study suggests.
The World Health Organization recommends that women wait at least two years after a live birth and six months after a miscarriage or induced abortion before conceiving again, Regan said in an email. But there are no recommendations when it comes to conceiving after a stillbirth. No one knows exactly why a short interval between births raises the risk of adverse outcomes, Regan said. But there are theories."The most commonly discussed theory is one called 'maternal depletion syndrome,' which suggests that women are depleted of important nutrients after a pregnancy and without time to recover, they enter the next pregnancy 'depleted' and are more prone to having an unhealthy pregnancy.
Among the 14,452 births in women whose previous pregnancy ended in a stillbirth, 14,224 were live births, 2,532 were preterm births and 1,284 were small-for-gestational-age births. There were 228 stillbirths.
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