Today I finish my conversation with Kristen.

This week we hear about:
* two challenging miscarriages
* drugs for miscarriage versus D and C procedure
* Insights on how to think about the miscarriages
* Her current pregnancy

We pick up where we left off. Kristen is talking about getting pregnant a 4th time, around 9 months after the last birth, and how this time things don't go well...

Must Watch video with Elizabeth Banks from the American Heart Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JI487DlgTA

References for Oocyte Aging
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-many-eggs-does-a-woman-have#puberty

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10080932/

Today we hear from a woman whose experience ran the gamut from infertility, on the brink of IVF, to smooth pregnancies, quick births, and difficult miscarriages.

Throughout this process she learns:
* important lessons about the limits of her control over the complicated process of growing another human
* the joys of outrunning medical predictions that pregnancy would be very hard to achieve.

What follows is the first part of our conversation.

Link about inductions
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-on-inducing-labor-for-going-past-your-due-date/

This week I finish my conversation with Darla.
She has another uneventful pregnancy, that ends in a bang--
* An unintended home birth
*Significant challenges when-- in the early thick of Covid-- Darla has to jump through hospital hoops shortly after delivering a baby.

We pick up where we left off last week. Darla reflects on her first birth with appreciation, and is gearing up for the next birth, in a different setting.

More on recurrence of retained placenta
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767058.2019.1688294
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijgo.14800

To find more about Darla:
Website:

howtoaffordeverything.com

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