The fate of the child after threatened abortion.

It is to the credit of modern perinatology that it looks beyond the perinatal period and now also includes the course o£ the entire pregnancy, when it considers factors influencing neo-natal morbidity. Moreover, obstetrical reports cannot give complete Information about the effects of some complications of pregnancy, since ill-effects are xnot necessarily recognizable by the seventh day of life. When dealing with a significant deviation from the normal, one has to consider intra-uterine complications through a disturbed pregnancy, and this includes hemorrhages during the first half. Blood loss from the uterus during the first five months must be interpreted äs a Separation between the decidua and chorion (or placenta), äs long äs they do not arise from a low-lying pole of the ovum. As a complement to our previously reported investigations [15, 17] we have now followed up affected children and arrived at certain conclusions to add to the previously reported obstetric findings. Curriculum vitae