Super Fertility! The Most Useless of Super Powers.

In researching miscarriage (yeah, just in general, because what else am I gonna do?), I came across some research that hypothesizes women who suffer from recurrent miscarriage have uteri (uteruses?) that are too accepting!

The hypothesis: "For years, researchers have searched for the reason why some women experience recurrent miscarriages. Now, a new study suggests some women's uteruses are just more conducive for implanting embryos, both healthy and unhealthy ones. The results may explain why these so-called "super-receptive" women often have multiple miscarriages."

The study, with women who had 'normal' fertility and also women with recurrent miscarriage: "In the lab, the researchers placed high- and low-quality embryos on channels in between strips of uterus cells of the two groups of women. Cells from the women with normal fertility rejected the low-quality embryos and began to grow toward the high-quality ones. Cells from the women with recurrent miscarriages reached out and grew toward both the high- and low-quality embryos."

Embryonic development by dream designs; freedigitalphotos.net

Only 1 in 100 women suffer from recurrent miscarriage. As another article explains it: "...the wombs of some women are too good at letting embryos implant, even those of poor quality which should be rejected."

Unfortunately, like everything else health-related, this is just a hypothesis with a fairly small study behind it. It's just an idea, with no solution or treatment plan presented alongside it. But, every little bit of new info helps, right? Onward with my acupuncture plan...