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  • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This isn’t completely accurate. I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks and I passed a little lizard-y thing. It looked a bit like when a lizard egg breaks and the lizard inside isn’t done yet. I had another miscarriage at 12 weeks and passed a little baby like the size of a quarter, still alien but less lizard-y. I don’t understand how this article can say the below. Am I a freak of nature that grows babies at breakneck pace? The doctors seemed to think everything was normal for all of my pregnancies, including the successful one.

    This image shows the gestational sac of a nine-week pregnancy. This is everything that would be removed during an abortion and includes the nascent embryo, which is not easily discernible to the naked eye.

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      2 months ago

      How did you count the 8 weeks? You’re not supposed to count from the moment of conception. You’re supposed to count from your last menstruation, which is approximately 2 weeks before conception. It’s odd but that is how doctors (and the law!) counts. That is part of what makes those 6 week bans so problematic. When you miss a period you are already at 4 weeks!