pregnancies

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The UK is having this problem, but mostly from women putting off pregnancies until their 30's or 40's.

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Quick take

The period of time this condition prevails.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pregnancies gathered in one view.

noun

The period of time this condition prevails.

noun

(countable) The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.

noun

(uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pregnancies.

noun

The period of time this condition prevails.

noun

(countable) The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.

noun

(uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.

Example sentences

The UK is having this problem, but mostly from women putting off pregnancies until their 30's or 40's.

A huge number of pregnancies are unplanned, and even fairly reliable contraceptive methods have a non-trivial failure rate.

Is it leading to sexual behavior that displaces other safer forms of sex (that were leading to teenage pregnancies)?

Here is a study that links autism to low iron intake among pregnant women: Iron deficiency affects 40%–50% of pregnancies.

It's also not a choice in aggregate in that ~50% of pregnancies are unplanned.

STDs and unwanted pregnancies, I'll give you that but let's assume that everyone's a responsible adult and wears protection.

I say this after going through 2 pregnancies (with my wife) and now with 2 young kids.

Plenty of pregnancies end in miscarriage and that rate increases with age.

However, I believe if we are to reach zero unintended pregnancies, the male procedures need both medical and reversibly surgical options.

I believe child poverty can be reduced significantly if the society focuses on unwanted pregnancies.

Since there is a trend among poor teenagers to have more unplanned pregnancies it makes sense to address that problem, and this is one possible step.

But how many of those abuses might result in pregnancies?

Quote examples

Eugenics inspired Margaret Sanger to found Planned Parenthood, not to save society from unwanted pregnancies, but to prevent immigrant "inferiors" from breeding.

I've heard that unwanted pregnancies are more frequent in the "wait till married" crowd.

According to the paper "Intended and Unintended Births in the United States: 1982–2010" where they interviewed 12 000 women, for women aged 15-24 either married or living together with their partner, a little more than half of all pregnancies were intended.

There are some statements that I suspect make intuitive conclusions, and many of which I suspect are right (e.g., availability of birth control lowers the rate of abortions and unplanned pregnancies), but even those with which I agree are relegated to the portion of my mind that holds the "do not recite this" category of statistics.