My mother had six pregnancies. I am the only one that lived. We think this may mostly be b/c mom was a three pack-a-day smoker at a time when the link between smoking and miscarriage wasn’t well-understood, but we don’t really know why and, frankly, it doesn’t really matter now.
Two of those miscarriages took place well-along her second t…
My mother had six pregnancies. I am the only one that lived. We think this may mostly be b/c mom was a three pack-a-day smoker at a time when the link between smoking and miscarriage wasn’t well-understood, but we don’t really know why and, frankly, it doesn’t really matter now.
Two of those miscarriages took place well-along her second trimester, 5th & 6th months. She almost bled to death, twice. (The second time she bled so much she had an out-of-body experience. She floated above the surgical table and could see the medical team trying to save her. Then her father appeared and told her it wasn’t her time and she woke up in recovery.)
But here’s the point: she was living in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s, getting her medical care from a small clinic, and she STILL got better medical care than women are getting in Texas in 2023.
My mother had six pregnancies. I am the only one that lived. We think this may mostly be b/c mom was a three pack-a-day smoker at a time when the link between smoking and miscarriage wasn’t well-understood, but we don’t really know why and, frankly, it doesn’t really matter now.
Two of those miscarriages took place well-along her second trimester, 5th & 6th months. She almost bled to death, twice. (The second time she bled so much she had an out-of-body experience. She floated above the surgical table and could see the medical team trying to save her. Then her father appeared and told her it wasn’t her time and she woke up in recovery.)
But here’s the point: she was living in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s, getting her medical care from a small clinic, and she STILL got better medical care than women are getting in Texas in 2023.
This is where we are.