How many times have you been pregnant? *Sensitive topic*

[Glamourcide]

Not sure if you are counting terminations in this straw poll but 'loss' doesn't always mean miscarriage and the effects can be just as gut wrenching. The sad thing is that, in our society, even though abortion is decriminalized, most women would not admit to having had a termination lest they be judged. It's a loss that no one wants to know about.

Unfortunately it hasn't been decriminalised in all states of Australia, and women and their doctors are still at very real risk of being hauled in front of judge and jury for exercising their right to choose... (sorry to hijack, BAL, I'm writing an essay on this atm so it seems to be popping up everywhere!)
You do have a very valid point, though. I guess those who are uncomfortable with talking about specifics regarding their losses can just word their replies in a vague way, or not reply at all if it's a really sensitive subject for them. I read the question as pregnancies vs live births and answered accordingly, no further information required. A loss is a loss is a loss, it's nobody's business but your own whether it was a spontaneous miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, chemical pregnancy, termination, etc etc.

I am asking the women of BB how many pregnancies VS live births they have had or if they were fortunate enough to have never experienced a loss. It's not up to me to decide what a loss is. I just threw the 1 in 4 statistic in there because I found it interesting.. TBH I don't really know what losses that statistic includes either.

ETA: From what I can find from a quick google it's for miscarriage. So that only covers 1 aspect of loss.

I think the general statistic is that for every 4 pregnancies, 3 result in live births - the reason for the pregnancy not carrying to full term doesn't really enter the equation. I've heard statistics recently claiming that 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in termination (when considering that 50% of pregnancies in Aus are unplanned, and 50% of those pregnancies will be terminated), so I suppose it all depends on where the info is coming from - it appears there's not a lot of reliable evidence because the data collection methods are flawed.

Also an interesting 'fun fact': women who require a D&C following a m/c are for the most part counted as having had an 'abortion' because Medicare uses the same code for the two procedures. Which then skews both m/c AND abortion stats as nobody knows how many of each are lumped into the one category.