After Reading These Last Couple Of Posts...

[Burzhui]

By Jenny and Nanotech9

and i urge the GAM to create a VD forum

[Nanotech9]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha

[welfareloser]

yeah, except what jenny is describing is more like a miscarriage than a vd... now nano... yep. caught it from tha monkey-love, dintcha?

[Sir_Froggy]

wut's VD?

[welfareloser]

venereal disease, also called std, for sexually transmitted disease.

[Nanotech9]

i think Froggy is a little young for these message boards...

[Kenas]

Originally posted by Burzhui
By Jenny and Nanotech9

and i urge the GAM to create a VD forum

I'd rather people keep that private or talk to a profecional doctor, i am sure one can assist them better.

[attgig]

Originally posted by Nanotech9
i think Froggy is a little young for these message boards...

my thoughts exactly

what are we exposing these children to!

[attgig]

but uhhh....i'm confused...
what posts are you talking about???

[sbp]

Reading that thread brought up memories of a family friend who miscarried 2 years ago.

[Jenny]

Yes, mine was deleted. I had pretty much proved my point, which was what I wanted to do. lol

[Jenny]

Originally posted by sbp
Reading that thread brought up memories of a family friend who miscarried 2 years ago.

I'm sorry, sbp! Actually, on a serious note, when that happened to me, that is what I was worried about. I was scared that I had been pregnant and not known it, so after I showed it to my husband, we immediately called my mother-in-law who assured me that it was just excess mucous, (spelling?), and what not. I was relieved. Of course, a month later, I ended up pregnant with my son, so...

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by sbp
Reading that thread brought up memories of a family friend who miscarried 2 years ago.

that's tough, especially when you're trying to have a baby, you take a pregnancy test, it comes up positive, everyone's celebrating, and then, boom. i think the biggest problem is that it just isn't common knowledge that 20-40% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that most women will have at least one... it just hits you like a ton of bricks when it happens. that needs to be part of the standard education that women get at the gynecologists office, right along with the "do a monthly breast exam" and "take folic acid" lectures.

[BrewMaster]

thanks for sharing, but that was a little too much info for me. I agree with BUrzhui.

[Nija]

Originally posted by welfareloser


that's tough, especially when you're trying to have a baby, you take a pregnancy test, it comes up positive, everyone's celebrating, and then, boom. i think the biggest problem is that it just isn't common knowledge that 20-40% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that most women will have at least one... it just hits you like a ton of bricks when it happens. that needs to be part of the standard education that women get at the gynecologists office, right along with the "do a monthly breast exam" and "take folic acid" lectures.

How I totally did not know that. (obviously I'm male ;P) but I have never heard anything about folic acid... but that mis-carriage thing, whoa, that is a total trip *jaw drops*

Nija

[oblongmelon]

Originally posted by welfareloser


that's tough, especially when you're trying to have a baby, you take a pregnancy test, it comes up positive, everyone's celebrating, and then, boom. i think the biggest problem is that it just isn't common knowledge that 20-40% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that most women will have at least one... it just hits you like a ton of bricks when it happens. that needs to be part of the standard education that women get at the gynecologists office, right along with the "do a monthly breast exam" and "take folic acid" lectures.

um..yeh. I never heard of such a thing about MOST women having at least one and I worked OB/GYN and labor and delivery for almost 13 years. I guess I wasted all that money in nursing school for nothing. But you're right about the celebrating bit. That's why it's better to wait until the second trimester to tell anyone since most miscarriages happen in the first.

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by oblongmelon


um..yeh. I never heard of such a thing about MOST women having at least one and I worked OB/GYN and labor and delivery for almost 13 years. I guess I wasted all that money in nursing school for nothing. But you're right about the celebrating bit. That's why it's better to wait until the second trimester to tell anyone since most miscarriages happen in the first.

most being over 50%... and the 20-40% figure depends on whether you're counting only confirmed pregnancies, or trying to also make an estimate of how many of those "my period is about three weeks late and especially heavy flow and painful" were actually miscarriages. all of this is fairly new in the last five years... before that, the miscarriage rate was thought to be about 10%.

sorry, i'll stop now. i've just read waaaaay too many journal articles.