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A 44-year-old female asked:
I am8 weeks pregnant. had an orgasm in my dream, now feels like menstrual cramps. can contractions from an orgasm cause miscarriage? so worried!!!
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Dr. Robert Kwokanswered
Pediatrics 35 years experience
No worries: In normal women with normal pregnancies, orgasms do not cause miscarriages, and miscarriages do not cause orgasms, although the two can happen coincidentally (at the same time).
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I am 35 weeks pregnant, and had previously had a miscarriage. I am feeling lots of back pain, baby balling up, cramps/contrction should I go to hospt?
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