Title: Why are some babies born premature? | Yahoo Answers
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Why are some babies born premature?
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Source (s): hope this helps. and yes, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs can also cause this. Pippin
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1 decade ago
There are dozens and hundreds of possible reasons a baby might be born prematurely. Smoking does indeed increase the risk, and so do illicit drugs. The woman may have an incompetent cervix, or suffer some form of trauma (an auto accident or severe fall), or have an underlying medical condition. But in many cases there is no obvious reason -- sometimes it 'just happens.' (At 4 months it wasn't a premature birth, but a late miscarriage. Anything up to 20 weeks is considered a miscarriage.) EDIT: