Are you having a miscarriage if you're 16 and you're taking ortho tricyclen and you just started your period but there was a tissue-like discharge?

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Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks. On average, about 15 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and more than 80 percent of the time, it happens in the first trimester. (This doesn't include situations where you lose a fertilized egg before you get a positive pregnancy test. Studies have found that 30 to 50 percent of all fertilized eggs are lost before a woman finds out she's pregnant because they happen so early that she goes on to get her period about on time.) If you lose a baby after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it's called a stillbirth. What causes a miscarriage? Between 50 and 70 percent of first trimester miscarriages are thought to be random events caused by chromosomal abnormalities in the fertilized egg. Most often, this means that the egg or sperm had the wrong number of chromosomes, and as a result, the fertilized egg is unable to develop normally. In other cases, a miscarriage can be caused by problems that occur during the delicate process of early human development