High foetal mortality and birth intervals

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Abstract
Studies of birth intervals have generally separated the process into: (1) the period of infertility following a pregnancy termination; (2) the length ofthe interval from the end of the infertile period to the next conception (which reflects the probability of conception), and (3) the average duration of pregnancy for both live births and foetal deaths.1 Empirically derived intervals between successive live births average from 19 to 30 lunar months2 (Table 1), depending upon the population studied and the birth order.3 Estimates of conception rates using birth intervals data require some estimate of the extent to which foetal wastage increases the birth interval.

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