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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, brave to share.[/quote]

Some things are private and your infertility is one of them![/quote]

“I felt like I failed, because I didn't know how common miscarriages were because we don't talk about them,” Obama, 54, told Roberts of the incident that happened about two decades ago. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken. So, that's one of the reasons why I think it's important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen, and the biological clock is real.”"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/11/09/michelle-obama-miscarriage-ivf-children-pregnancy-robin-roberts-gma/1940485002/

This is why this forum exists. [/quote]

How does anyone not know miscarriages happen often? Especially a well educated, worldly woman such as herself? That seems an odd statement to make. [/quote]

Because people don't talk about it personally.  You might know in a scientific/academic/statistical sense that miscarriages are common, but not realize how often it happens in your own social circle.  I am AA and among the women in my social circle of 10-13 women, only one other had openly shared a miscarriage experience. But truth be told 7 out of the group had had at least one.   I had three miscarriages, I felt very alone and definitely felt broken.  AA women DO NOT TALK ABOUT INFERTILITY.  We just don't. The inability to have children for AA women is not culturally accepted or understood to be "a thing".  Her words rang extremely true to me.  I am so glad she shared this.  [/quote]

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