Miscarriages (Kupita padela)

Miscarriage (kupita padela) Most people in our communities both in urban and rural areas still believe when a woman has a miscarriage kapena titi mzimai akapita padela ndekuti walodzedwa, enake sakumuonela kukondwa. 

Let me share with you the science behind a miscarriage. There are several risk factors that may lead to a miscarriage, some of them include; 

1. Age - The older a woman gets the more likely they are to miscarry for example in some populations at 35 years of age a woman has about 20% chance of having a miscarriage, at 40 years the chances double etc 

2. Use of alcohol and other drugs during pregnancy 

3. Some invasive prenatal procedures 

4. Previous miscarriages 

5. Some uterine conditions 

6. Physical trauma. (Ngozi, Kumenya amai oyembekezela ndizina zotero)

For this post I want to share about miscarriages that are caused due to previous miscarriages. We have 4 as our main blood groups namely blood group A, B, AB and O.

All these blood groups come with what we call a rhesus factor (for the sake of this post and lack of a better chichewa word let's just call our rhesus factor as a mphatikila kutsogolo wa blood group yathu). Rhesus factor can either be negative or positive. 

This means your blood group can have any of the rhesus factor, meaning to say you can have blood group A negative or A positive Kaya O negative O positive, etc. We inherit our blood groups from our parents. Mtundu wa magazi athu kuphatikiza mphatikila kutsogoloyu timatengela kwamakolo athu. 

Though we inherit genes from our parents, depending on their (mother and father) blood group types, an unborn baby forms his or her own blood circulation and may have a different blood group from either parents if they do have different blood groups. For example if a father has blood type A and mother blood type B, the child can either have blood type A or B or even combine both and be AB, just depends on genetic probabilities. 

Now back on miscarriage due to previous miscarriage. If a man whose blood group has a rhesus positive factor impregnates a woman whose blood group has a rhesus negative factor (mphatikila kutsogolo wa blood group ya bambo ndi wa positive ndipo mai ndi wa Negative) for example blood group ya bambo ndi B positive and ya mai ndi B Negative. Mwana atakhala kuti watengela mphatikila kutsogolo wabambo yemwe ndi wa rhesus factor positive, nthawi yomwe mai ali oyembekezela, makamaka pobeleka, timagazi tochepa ta mwana uja timatha kulowa nthupi la mai. 

Over several weeks the mother develops antibodies and immune memory against the rhesus antigen from the child. (Masabata angapo otsatila thupi la mai uja limazindikila kuti nthupi mwake munalowa chinthu chachikunja (foreign body) ndipo thupi lija limapanga asilikali achitetezo komaso ena okumbukila (memory cells) oti azakumbukile komanso kuthana ndi chilichonse chofanana ndi chomwe chinalowa nthupi la mai lija. 

When the woman becomes pregnant again with a rhesus positive child her immune system quickly produces antibodies that attack the fetus' red blood cells. This is what is called a miscarriage. (Mzimai uja akatengaso pakati pomwe mwana oyembekezela kubadwa ali ndi mphatikila kutsogolo wa magazi wa positive, thupi la mai limakumbukila mkuona ngati mwalowaso chinthu chachilendo, tsano limatulusa asilikali anapangidwa aja mkukamenya magazi amwana yemwe ali mmimba mwa mai uja, apa mpomwe timati mzimai wapita padela. 

As you can see there is no any witchcraft involved it's just the medical science behind. Mzimai akapita padela sizikutanthauza kuti amulodza yaye, nthawi zina mkutheka ndi chimodzi or zambiri mwazifukwa zalongosoledwa m'mwambazo. Pitani kuchipatala chomwe mulinacho pafupi ngati mukungopita padela, thandizo lochepesa komanso kulesa kupita padela lilipo ndithu.