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Subj : Re: Question for Doc Sharon (and any other doctors out there)
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Sharon Three
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 09:15:33

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


<shellieeyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1126221564.541009.154150@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> My sister had three miscarriages and four healthy boys;  I had two
> early losses and two sons who I conceived easily and carried with no
> problems.  The "I can't have children" after miscarriages in soaps and
> the like is ridiculous unless the woman's had some kind of hideous
> infection as a result of an incomplete miscarriage or something.  Of
> course a medical  reason for not carrying to term may be behind
> repeated miscarriages but that never seems to be the scenario, does it?
> I agree that it's irresponsible and must cause a huge amount of
> anxiety in women who have miscarried and might fear the worst.
>
> I think the very early pregnancy tests mean that we now know we've
> "miscarried" instead of just having a late period.  I don't know what
> proportion of conceptions spontaneously abort in the very early stages
> but I have a feeling that it's quite high.  In the past they just
> wouldn't have registered with us as pregnancies at all but as false
> alarms (or dashed hopes) because of the wait before a test would give a
> result.
>
Something like two thirds of fertilized eggs never implant in the uterus. 
With the advent of early pregnancy testing, we know that a third of those 
that do implant are also lost.

Doc Sharon

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