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I’m really glad we decided to have kids when we did and didn’t wait longer. I was completely unaware of miscarriage rates when we started. Even for healthy age

I’m really glad we decided to have kids when we did and didn’t wait longer. I was completely unaware of miscarriage rates when we started. Even for healthy age groups it’s more than 10%. It’s much higher than I would have thought, and rises quickly after 32, just when many people are hitting their professional stride, which is extremely unfortunate.

xupybd 7y ago
You raise a good point. Many are not aware how common miscarriages are. I don't know if it would make it any easier to know they happen often to many couples but it might make it easier to prepare.
ranDOMscripts 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of women who have tried to get pregnant have had at least 1 miscarriage in their lifetime. Fertile or not, it appears to be part of the child-bearing process given sufficient attempts to reproduce.
- cs02rm0 7y ago
  1 in 4 pregnancies was the figure I was quoted, when my wife had a miscarriage.
  - astura 7y ago
    1 in 4 known pregnancies. Most miscarriages occur before pregnancy hormones able to be detected. Probably around 40-60% of fertilized eggs die. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443340/
lazyasciiart 7y ago
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.
- sparker72678 7y ago
  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.

xupybd 7y ago

You raise a good point. Many are not aware how common miscarriages are. I don't know if it would make it any easier to know they happen often to many couples but it might make it easier to prepare.

ranDOMscripts 7y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of women who have tried to get pregnant have had at least 1 miscarriage in their lifetime. Fertile or not, it appears to be part of the child-bearing process given sufficient attempts to reproduce.

cs02rm0 7y ago
1 in 4 pregnancies was the figure I was quoted, when my wife had a miscarriage.
- astura 7y ago
  1 in 4 known pregnancies. Most miscarriages occur before pregnancy hormones able to be detected. Probably around 40-60% of fertilized eggs die. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443340/

lazyasciiart 7y ago

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.

sparker72678 7y ago
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.