SIDE STORY:
My great-grandparents lost three daughters--all under 6--in a week to that horrible flu. My g-grandmother refused to have any more kids. My g-grandpa liked to "play the horses," so he bargained with g-gma that he'd quit gambling if she'd have another child. She had the child (grandpa), but he didn't quit gambling.
My grandfather was one of eleven children born at the turn of the last century and onwards. What was amazing is that his mother carried all of her children to full term, and never miscarried. Given the lack of medical advice available at the time, this is amazing.
I believe the current estimate is that forty percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. If that is true, how did my great-grandmother not miscarry even once?
Maybe it is something in the genes.