Those delicious first moments of parenting.
I’ve heard it said, a number of times now, that the grief mothers commonly experience after a first trimester loss wasn’t felt by generations of women gone by. In fact, I’ve heard it said that pregnancy tests and ultrasound scans have created first trimester miscarriage as a loss experience. That women bond earlier because of […]
Approximately 20% of confirmed pregnancies end in loss. The most common cause of miscarriage is chromosomal abnormalities, followed by genetic mutations. Combined they cause the overwhelming majority of first trimester miscarriages. Our species is particularly chromosomally unstable, as many as 70% of all conceptions are not viable. Many conceptions are lost – the fertilised ovum […]
When to confirm a pregnancy and when to share the news that you are pregnant are, of course, personal decisions. What might be right for an individual woman varies according to her unique situation and personality. But there are social norms, unspoken (or spoken) rules that many women follow, that many women feel they have […]