Pregnancy loss changes how you see everything.
Before your miscarriage, seeing a positive pregnancy test might have been one of the happiest moments of your life.
You'd start working out your due date. Wondering when you'd tell your family. Imagining what the next nine months might look like.
But after you've experienced pregnancy loss, that same positive test can bring a completely different feeling.
Instead of excitement, there's fear.
In...
You might not think you have a gut problem.
You might not think you have a gut problem.
That was the interesting part.
I was working with a woman who'd experienced recurrent miscarriage, and when we first talked about her gut health, she didn't really think she had any issues.
But her symptom questionnaire told me there were a few things worth exploring.
Bloating.
Lethargy.
Bad breath.
A white coating on her tongue.
And episodes of binge...
She mentioned this one symptom and my brain immediately went somewhere else
I had a call with a woman this weekend.
We were talking through her history when she said, almost in passing:
“I have explosive bowel movements.”
And my brain immediately went:
We need to look at her gut.
Not because that one symptom gives me an answer for why she has experienced miscarriage.
It doesn’t.
But because it’s a clue.
And this morning, I’m still thinking about it.
Because I wonder ho...
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