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Ways to commemorate a baby lost to miscarriage
A miscarriage is often a loss that is dealt with in secret – many women have miscarriages before they have told anyone they were pregnant. Even if friends and relatives are aware, miscarriage is often not recognized as a “real loss”. Have you lost a baby to miscarriage and are you looking for ways to commemorate the loss? Grieving [...]
Talking to children about miscarriage
A miscarriage is always a huge disappointment, and it becomes more complicated when you have already talked other people that you were expecting a baby. But what should you do if you have already told your older child or children that they were going to have a new sibling, and then had a miscarriage? How [...]
The most common miscarriage symptoms
The risk of miscarrying is the highest during the first twelves weeks of pregnancy – in other words, the first trimester. Newly pregnant women may be very happy to be expecting, but at the same time slightly worried about the possibility of miscarrying. This is even more true for women who have already suffered a [...]
How to get pregnant quickly after a miscarriage
Many women who have just suffered a miscarriage would like to resume their quest to become a parent as soon as possible. Recent research showed that conceiving soon after a miscarriage is safe, and that you may even have higher chances of conceiving more quickly in the first six months following your loss than later [...]
Top 10 horrible comments women get after a miscarriage
There is a reason why many women wait for their first trimester of pregnancy to pass before they make the announcement they are expecting. Miscarriages are most likely to occur in the first twelve weeks, and if you have a miscarriage that everyone knows about, it is hard to avoid hurtful comments. This is a [...]
Getting pregnant after miscarriage
As much as 20 percent of all pregnancies will end in a miscarriage. Getting pregnant again after suffering a miscarriage is, therefore, something that many women will have to deal with at some point in their lives. Fortunately, the vast majority of those who had a miscarriage will go on to conceive again and to [...]
Lupus anticoagulant and pregnancy
If you have tested positive for anticoagulant antibodies, your chances of complications in pregnancy go up immediately. So what does it mean if you have anticoagulant antibodies? How is this treated, and what can the consequences be? If you have never heard about lupus anticoagulant, you are not the only one. But it is important [...]
Does the risk of miscarriage pass after the first trimester?
It is often said that you should wait with announcing your pregnancy to family and friends until the first trimester has passed, because this is when the risk of miscarriage goes down. Does that mean that the risk of miscarriage passes after the first trimester is over? Once you see your baby and its heart [...]
New study says conceiving soon after miscarriage is safe
Miscarriage is a sad and often very private topic, as well as being completely normal and extremely common. Depending on which figures you look at, miscarriage strikes one in five women, or as many as half if you include very early miscarriages. Whenever miscarriage happens, it always brings grief and questions. One of those questions [...]
What are the odds of having a first trimester miscarriage?
A miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks, and miscarriage is of course the ultimate fear of every newly pregnant woman. Let’s take a look at the statistics, and see what the odds are of having a miscarriage in the first trimester, and what the causes behind miscarriage can be.
