A team mate of mine recently celebrated her first pregnancy, but alas at 8 weeks, she miscarried. Having heard her dreams and plans for her future baby days previously, I can imagine just how devastated she might be feeling now. I hope that by sharing my own story, she might perhaps feel that she isn's alone. Even if it feels like it, it is not as if life is unfair only to her. However selfish this may sound like, sometimes knowing that there are other people close to you with similar experiences helps. That was how I tried to console myself with previously.
On a different note, I cannot help but start to worry about this alarming (to me it is) frequency of miscarriages within my own social circle itself. Is it our current modern lifestyle? Our working habits? Whatever it is, I cannot help but wonder if we do really have something to worry about....
Moved! Yes...again
16 years ago
2 comments:
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with lifestyle or diet. Why it seems alarming is because the older generation in Asia don't talk about miscarriages and so forth.
In the Western world, people talk about it, do studies and so forth. It has been shown scientifically that every woman will almost go through two miscarriages in their lifetime. It is just how the way the body is...it is a survival and protection mechanism that ensures the survival of the species. Miscarriages, especially ones that occur naturally happen because of many reasons - most are usually attributed to genetics. As painful as it is to go through, it is for the best!
Getting pregnant is NOT as easy as we all think it is. Blame our ancestors for making us think it is.
The first trimester is the most vulnerable period for pregnancy. Which was why Chinese prefers not to reveal about their pregnancy before reaching the safe period of 2nd trimester.
But I do believe that better diet will help a lot for people trying to conceive.
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