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Really tragic news for them, having been through this twice myself (well my wife) I know this happens so much more than is widely reported, so I respect how brave they were to put themselves in the spotlight and hope they are getting all the support they want and need. 

Very sad to hear, been through this once ourselves a few years ago and I thought once was sad enough. At the time I felt a little numb and wasn’t sure how to handle it until I realised how hard it hit my wife. Just being there and supporting is all you can really do in tough times.

Best wishes to the Jones family.

 

Wow, you never know what people are going through do you? third in a row is so cruel.

hopefully cuddles from their two little ones are easing the pain a bit

It's a hidden epidemic. All the baby books talk about how great it is being a prospective parent (and it is), but 1 in 4 is very high. I have heard other figures before, eg 33%, but the exact number I'm not sure is known. The high rate of miscarriages is brushed under the carpet and not talked about. Put it into punting terms ... you'd keel over with joy if you could get a steady 1 in 4 on horses.


Dreadful news. It does happen a lot though.?

 

 Very sad for  Nathan and  family.
Best wishes and sympathies to all the Joneses. 

Very sad.

I am so happy they had the courage to talk about it. I only heard this statistic a few months ago and was shocked in 2 ways.

1) that the rate was so high

2) that i didn't know this already.

It must be a very hard thing to discuss personally but I am surprised that we as a community do not discuss it more openly.

Is this something we just don't openly discuss or am I just living under a rock?

2 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

No. But even 15% of "clinically recognised" pregnancies is high.

yes, very high. not the best of odds even though an improvement


100 years ago it was worse,for mother and infant.Hence the population today.

Love to the Jones family but life goes on for them.

It’s a very strange kind of grief.  In some ways you’re not sure if your entitled to grieve or if there are degrees to which your loss stacks up against that of others.  It’s strange that, to even someone who has gone through it twice in the last twelve months, that making your loss known to others is still somewhat taboo.

People are now staring to talk about it, and that’s a good thing.

 

6 hours ago, BAMF said:

Very sad.

I am so happy they had the courage to talk about it. I only heard this statistic a few months ago and was shocked in 2 ways.

1) that the rate was so high

2) that i didn't know this already.

It must be a very hard thing to discuss personally but I am surprised that we as a community do not discuss it more openly.

Is this something we just don't openly discuss or am I just living under a rock?

I'm in the same boat, a good friend experienced it around May and I honestly didn't know how often it happened even as much as 3 months in. I can't even imagine. 

6 hours ago, bing181 said:

Any studies to back that up?

This from a quick search, maybe you have other research:

"The annual incidence of registry-identified miscarriage has declined significantly between 1998 and 2016."

https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/34/11/2120/5611272

Research? While 'epidemic' has probably been used a little freely here bing, your response is unnecessarily cynical and I reckon a tad heartless. Hidden, maybe, in that most people (blokes) don't choose to share this info with others. I never have and, given in your 'quick search', for whatever reason, you've gone all the way to Finland to downplay it's incidence, I wouldn't with chaps such as you.

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