For those who don’t know, I went through a very sad moment in my life when I had a miscarriage at 11 weeks of pregnancy. It was a very critical period for me; I thought I would never recover. But everything I learned from this miscarriage experience helped me stay alert in future pregnancies. With this miscarriage, I realized that not everything goes the way we want and that there are unexpected situations beyond our control, mere mortals that we are. I thought this would never happen to me, and then, exactly at the most important moment of my life, my first pregnancy, my world fell apart…
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I lost my little angel due to a placental abruption and I know many women go through this, which motivated me to share my experience with miscarriage so that I could help other moms, just as the stories of those who had already been through it helped me greatly. See my account and how everything happened, and right after I talk a bit about the causes that can lead to a miscarriage.
See also: Miscarriage, I have also been through it.
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