Re:Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'
by lazyasciiart on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:20PM
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It's far higher than that, but most miscarriages occur so early that in the past, or today if not actively checking if you are pregnant, a woman wouldn't have known it happened. This is obviously difficult to study, but current thought is that miscarriages occur in 30-50% of fertilizations, and with more and more tracking, people are more and more likely to know about it.
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Re:Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'
by sparker72678 on Monday January 20, 2020 @06:15PM
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This was our experience, having a positive pregnancy test and then my wife getting what we would have thought was just a late, heavy period shortly afterward.
Early testing is nice, but with subsequent attempts to get pregnant we chose to wait quite a bit longer after a missed period before doing a pregnancy test, because we didn't want to go through the roller coaster again.