الخميس، 24 سبتمبر 2015

'I had eight miscarriages - pregnancy can be a scary place'

With a BMJ report advising doctors to wait longer before they diagnose a miscarriage, one woman describes the ‘grim routine’ of pregnancy tests

Pregnancy tests make us think pregnancy is like an on-off switch: two lines and you’re having a baby, one line and you’re not. But pregnancy can be a much scarier place, an uncertain grey area between conception and implantation when a tiny bundle of cells must try to settle in the womb and may not succeed.

I had my first child at 29; three years later, when we decided to try again, it all got much more complicated. Over the space of the next three years I had eight early miscarriages, all before nine weeks. The first couple I wrote off as normal – and early miscarriage is completely normal. But soon, becoming pregnant signalled the start of a grim routine.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1FvF9MU

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