Miscarriages and Men

A public service announcement from a female researcher

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Here’s a PSA about miscarriages that I wish somebody had given me because I knew nothing until it happened. Very much to my own surprise, I ended up having almost every kind of miscarriage there is.

By the way, my name is Katherine Pickering Antonova,I’m an Associate Professor of Russian history at Queens College, City University of New York. I earned my B.A. at the University of Chicago and Ph.D. at Columbia. Originally from Holland, Michigan, I was a Rotary Youth Exchange student to Norway, and have also lived in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Ivanovo, Russia. Apparently, I like cold places too.

Every man should read this. You REALLY need to know this.

There are many kinds of miscarriages — everyone is different medically and for the woman and how it affects her, but they also range from “missed miscarriage” (very early, medically minor) to catastrophic (in every sense) late miscarriages.

“Missed miscarriage” is one of several weird archaic terms for when pregnancy starts successfully but ends again before we would normally even know for sure it was there, but that can now be detected with OTC quick tests.

My grandma, mother of 8 + 1 late miscarriage said it was a blessing not to know about…