Sometimes the most obvious cause of a miscarriage the women be completely overlooked by the grieving couple. Where the woman may be guilty focusing on the fact she went shopping, cleaned the house, helped move furniture, or did that exercise class she feared was not suitable, there may be silently worrying over his alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, or failure to help her carry the groceries that day before she lost the baby.
Because these kinds of fears, worries, and guilt inducers are all too common for both men and women who have lost a pregnancy through miscarriage, in this chapter I bring together the last few known causes of miscarriage, and show how the suspected causes above are now known not to be culprits.