English example sentences with "pregnancies"

Education about birth control might help cut down on adolescent pregnancies.

The average number of pregnancies per woman is two in industrialized countries.

While most ectopic pregnancies occur in the Fallopian tube, it is also possible for them to occur in the ovaries, abdomen, or cervix.

Recurrent miscarriage is distinct from infertility, and is defined as two or more failed pregnancies.

Due to injury to the cervix during dilation used in some abortions, your next baby may have a low birth weight or you may be more likely to have a spontaneous abortion in later pregnancies.

One in six pregnancies in Britain are unplanned.

Almost half of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.

Layla was known for faking pregnancies.

Umbilical cord prolapse occurs in approximately one in five hundred pregnancies, and is considered an emergency.

Have you ever had any complications during past pregnancies?

While pregnancies from sex between first cousins do carry a slightly elevated risk of birth defects, this risk is often exaggerated.

There was a rise in teen pregnancies.

According to the experts, the cloning procedure involves taking genetic material from a mammal's cell and injecting it into a female egg whose nucleus has been removed. The procedure does not guarantee successful pregnancies or healthy clones and most scientists object cloning humans. Rudolph Jaenisch, a medical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of them. For him, the procedure is scientifically unsafe.

Genetic diversity in the Texas State Bison Herd (descended from the famous Goodnight herd, discussed here) dropped so low that in 2003, just one calf in 15 pregnancies survived to its second year.