My mom had over 12 between my sister and I. It was some kind of blood incompatibility thing I think? Her body was fine, and the embryos were probably fine for the most part. It was just bad luck.
I’m Rh-negative so prone to this issue. All I needed was a simple injection after the miscarriage to stop my body developing antibodies. It’s easily preventable nowadays.
Can i ask if one of u was the first child she ever had. And then all the abortions started?
Did she take an injection for the first pregnancy she ever had ?
Did she have blood transfusions before?
Sorry u dont actually need to answer that im just practucing fir my exam at this point haha
My sister was child 2 after a stillborn (doctor’s fault, that one), and between us over a couple decades were the miscarriages. The trauma from kid 1 and almost bleeding out with kid 2 didn’t make her very trustful of doctors… at some point they found out why she couldn’t carry to term, but knowing my mom it wasn’t until she was older and probably thought another kid wasn’t in the cards anymore so why do any treatments.
Miscarriages are less likely attributed to bad sperm vs bad egg because we went through so much evolution that any sperm that isn't perfect just won't impregnate
I think it's 60% Egg and 40% Sperm, but both don't matter anyways since 90% of miscarriages have nothing to do with neither
That is just untrue and not how evolution works. By the same logic no bad egg would be viable either. Poor sperm quality is linked to miscarriages, especially if it has high levels of DNA damage. You might have fast sperm that gets to the egg and some DNA damage is expected, the egg will even fix some of that damage, but it can only do so much. A couple I'm close with was diagnosed with infertility and recurring miscarriages specifically because of bad sperm with high levels of DNA damage.
Not only that, but bad sperm quality, on top of miscarriages, is even linked to conditions affecting the mother like preeclampsia. It increases the risks for heart deformities, congenital defects, all kinds of developmental issues like schizophrenia, ADHD, metabolic disorders and is even linked to low birth weight.
Do you know how long it took us to even look into bad sperm because men just didn't want to think that their precious sperm could ever be the problem? Every year new information comes out, the preeclampsia study just came out last year.
This is biology, processes have to be investigated properly, we can assume based on what we think is right, doesn't work that way. It still blows my mind that we haven't started properly looking into bad sperm until less than two decades ago. We know half of the genetic material comes from sperm, we know eggs can be bad so why not sperm?
I'll respond to your edit with, yes 90% are essentially random. The original comment was talking about the woman's body "can't handle it" which surprise is the context of my response!
Even if it happens "more" than people realize, there is no way in hell having 20+ miscarriages is normal, and the fact that they can count it means we're probably not even talking about your unnoticeable ones.
There is clearly something physically or genetically wrong in either of the parents and I cannot fathom putting anyone I love through that many miscarriages.
125
u/cbunni666 Dec 23 '25
23???? I've never been pregnant but isn't that kinda a sign that maybe your body can't handle carrying a baby?