Oliver Conway

What they did, the researchers, they looked at a register of what jobs people were doing and also which of these pregnant women were

had a miscarriage.

So we're talking about 800,000 pregnancies in this Danish group, and then looking at about half a million women.

And they found that the chance of a miscarriage was about one in 10, which is similar to what you see in a population a little bit lower.

But when they started to try and tie together what women were doing as an occupation,

They said that they found this sort of link.

They're not fully sure what's going on, but a link with if there was a lot of work involving bending over.

And we're not talking about just a little bit.

We're talking if you were doing an eight hour shift, if a whole hour of that shift is intensive bending over, then there was this slightly increased risk there.

We do know from other pieces of research as well that obviously in pregnancy, you've got to adapt slightly what you're doing.

But certainly this goes against other advice, which you should keep exercising.

It's important that women don't feel that they should stop moving around in pregnancy and just sit still in bubble wrap.

It's nuanced.

In terms of work, workplaces should be able to offer support.

tweaks to employment if needed.

You know, sort of heavy lifting, that kind of thing is something that's already recognised as something to bear in mind.

But this new study doesn't really change what the current advice is.

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