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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused - why do you even need to tell her? Is the donor allowed to contact her or something?[/quote]

She will find out some day. Probably better to hear it from her parents first. You can't keep these secrets anymore.[/quote]

+1 And all research suggests that being open and honest with your kids about their donor-conceived status helps them also feel fine about it/have a good relationship with parents about it.  That being said, I totally understand why it felt awkward to bring this up, OP.  How have you addressed teaching her about sex/pregnancy in general?  [b]I would approach it through those conversations, maybe introducing her to the concept of miscarriages/infertility/etc, which is something I think we don't discuss at all until people are actually trying to get pregnant as adults and can be a bit disorienting to learn[/b].[/quote]

NP.

Yes, thank you , thank you , thank you!

Miscarriages can be so devastating.  But they are made unnecessarily more difficult because we fail to educate girls and women about how common they are.

My own DD is 14.  I feel she is very mature and understanding for her age.  So we have talked about this before.

All girls should know this before they turn 18. [/quote]
Question is... why are miscarriages getting more and more common? If it’s poor health (which must be at least part of the issue), I’d empower my daughter by telling her everything that might increase the probability of miscarriage. If she’s interested, she can research on her own. [/quote]

Are miscarriages becoming more common?

I know many older women, including my grandmother, mom and MIL who talk about the emotional pain of multiple miscarriages.  [/quote]

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