At the top of the news headlines this week are stories about former first lady, Michelle Obama, opening up about miscarriage and needing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive her daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama.
In her memoir, “Becoming,” she discusses the personal struggles she faced when trying to start a family. In an interview with Good Morning America, she …
Here is the scanario. You get pregnant quickly the first time and have a healthy baby. Then you have many miscarriages before another successful pregnancy. That’s the scenario in an op-ed article in the New York Times, “We Were Ready to Give Up on a Second Baby Until a ‘Miracle’ Arrived“. In this article the couple just keeps …
As study presented at ASRM 2013 in Boston and reported in the Washington Post suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trouble getting pregnant.
BPA, short for bisphenol-A, and certain other environmental chemicals can have very weak, hormone-like …
As noted in this recent article in USA Today, couples deal with loss and bereave miscarriages in different ways.
For many, it easier to keep the loss to a very small circle and mourne
the loss privately. These couples prefer not to involve even close
friends for various reasons. One reason is that they prefer to keep
the privacy of …
