Jack Osbourne and Lisa Stelly have lost their baby boy through a late term miscarriage and Lisa announced the late-term miscarriage on her blog on Thursday.
“I have been dreading this announcement…. I needed some time before being able to say it. Jack and I lost our baby boy last week. Having a late term miscarriage is by far the hardest thing either of us have ever had to go through. We appreciate all of your prayers and ask for privacy and respect during this time. It’s important to stay hopeful and optimistic through life’s toughest moments. We never know why things like this happen. All we can do is trust in God and know he has a plan for our lives.”
Late on Thursday night, Lisa wrote on her Twitter
page how she and Jack are dealing with their loss:
“Cuddling my amazing, sweet hubby & shutting my eyes. Thank you all for the love & support. It means the world.”Just a month ago, in early August, Jack Osbourne and his wife Lisa Stelly had announced that they were expecting their second child. Their daughter Pearl was born in April 2012.
"Jack and I are super excited to share with you all that we are expecting our second baby!" Lisa said in August. "I am in my second trimester, feeling great & trying not to eat everything in sight."
Jack Osbourne was just diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in
June last year and is treating himself for that. “I give myself a daily
injection of MS medication. I’ve also made a lifestyle change, minimizing
stress, exercising regularly.”
Jack is one of the new 12 contestants in the upcoming “Dancing
With the Stars” and is rehearsing. On Friday, he left the rehearsal studio in
dark glasses.
It seems one major life challenge per family should be
enough. With the news of Jack and Lisa’s late-term miscarriage, many people are
wondering why would that happen to two people that are just in their late
twenties, that have a healthy four-month-old daughter, and most likely have
every financial means in the world.
Here are a few answers about late-term miscarriages:
Late-term miscarriages or also just called late miscarriages
affect only about 2 percent of all pregnancies and occur between 14 to 20 weeks
of pregnancy; during the fourth or fifth month.
Symptoms of a
late-term miscarriage include severe cramping, bleeding, and/or large clots of
tissue passed with the blood.
Causes for a
late-term miscarriage can include any of the following:
- Fetal structural problems like spina bifida and congenital heart defects.
- A maternal anatomical problem, such as a uterus divided in two.
- A problem with the placenta, such as placental abruption or abnormal implantation.
- An infection that kills the baby, such as parvovirus, cytomegalovirus or toxoplasmosis.
- An infection that causes a leak in the amniotic sac or preterm labor.
- An incompetent cervix, which is one that is too weak to hold the pregnancy.
- Antiphospholid antibodies syndrome (APS), which is the condition of having too many antiphospholid antibodies in your bloodstream. About 15 percent of women with recurrent miscarriages have these antibodies; this can cause blood clots in the placenta.
Treatment: “If your bleeding and cramps continue after the baby and placenta are expelled from your body, you might have a minor surgical procedure called a D&C (dilation and curettage) to remove any remaining pregnancy tissue in your uterus,” reports Parents. Doctors can use the tissue to determine what caused the late-term miscarriage including whether a cervix dilated too early, or whether there are other factors.
Besides the physical symptoms, a late-term miscarriage can include a lot of psychological symptoms similar to those of the loss of an already born baby.
Finding strength and support within the close family structure (i.e. husband, parents, siblings, close friends) and in the wider social structure (nurses, doctors, support groups) can help a couple overcome a tragic loss.
Sharing one’s loss, as Jack Osbourne and Lisa Stelly did on their blog, is one of the
first steps to healing.
