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In reply to the discussion: This has to be the saddest anti-vaxxer story, yet. [View all]JT45242
(4,052 posts)My wife had a miscarriage before our first child was born. We had tried for a long time to get pregnant and she was seeing a fertility specialist. She was devastated. I was devastated. We knew that once you have one miscarriage you are at higher risks for more in every pregnancy.
So, when we were trying to get pregnant again. We would do ABOSLUTELY EVERYTHING TO PREVENT ANOTHER MISCARRIAGE. My wife quit her high stress job and took a pay cut. We ate healthy. Saw the doctor every week -- literally for the first 6 months of the pregnancy. Whatever the doctor said that we needed to do to minimize risk, we did it. Walk more. You got it doc. More vegetables, OK. Get plenty of rest. OK.
We were blessed that the next two pregnancies gave us two wonderful children.
This couple put their politics over the health of their potential child and the mom. He killed his child. He will likely kill his wife with his allegiance to MAGA world -- as finding a perfect match lung and not having complications is a crap shoot at best.
I have less than zero sympathy as someone who went through a miscarriage and lived to come through the other side. I know of far too many couples who end up divorced over the stress of a miscarriage. I know many who did what we did with subsequent pregnancies -- every safety precaution that the doctors recommended.
They f-ed around and found out that stupid decisions based on loyalty to a con man have deadly consequences. The husband is probably too clueless to realize his own culpability. No sympathy.