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A friend of mine is going through a bit of a down time as a result of a miscarriage, and it has me thinking: are early alert pregnancy tests creating a problem of people being upset over miscarriages they would never have been certain they had before?
Her pregnancy was very early stage, she wasn't showing at all whatsoever, and it's the kind of thing that would have been a single missed period and then it came back, if she didn't have the pregnancy test to tell her that it happened. Some reports believe that up to 40% of pregnancies end in miscarriage early on, and most put it at around 20%. Parents to be are frequently advised not to tell people about the pregnancy until several months in to avoid a false alarm.
I'm watching my friend suffer psychologically on this (I suspect that her suffering is magnified by a lot of shit she talked after having her first kid, talking about how people she knew who were having trouble conceiving were probably struggling as a result of their usage of vaccines/birth control), and I'm thinking to myself: she should never have known this happened.
Our first miscarriage was a major blessing because up to that point we weren't even sure that my wife could get pregnant. So it was sad, but ultimately we saw it as a positive. And wouldn't have known without early detection
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