the.com/miscarriage
A pregnancy loss that often happens in silence, leaving grief many hesitate to share.
means The spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
from Built from 'mis-' (wrong, astray) plus 'carriage,' back when 'carry' meant bearing a child to term — so a miscarriage is literally a carrying that went wrong, the pregnancy failing to reach delivery, borrowing the era's language of transport and bearing-along for the most intimate of journeys.
- how common
- about 1 in 4 known pregnancies
- actual cause
- usually random chromosomal errors, not lifestyle
- silence factor
- most happen before week 12, rarely discussed