Nick Foles and his wife Tory are dealing
with a devastating loss this morning
Tory had a miscarriage last weekend she
made the announcement on Instagram
explaining that she went into sudden
labor Sunday morning
she had been battling what she thought
was a virus days before but later
discovered it was a pneumonia infection
in her blood this is the photo that she
posted with the Instagram post thanking
the family the other family that's in
this picture with her for helping her
through this time they were here
visiting when this happened to Tory
foals and you know she also talked about
the overwhelming sadness and confusion
the anger that she and Nick are going
through
unfortunately this tragedy is something
that many women experience ob/gyn dr.
Marshall Ishod is joining us this
morning thanks for being here to
appreciate thanks for having me do you
know I remember with both of my children
and and you get so excited when you know
you're pregnant you don't want to tell
anyone because you want to wait until
you know you've reached that 12-week
mark you know and so on that thirteenth
week maybe you start telling people is
there an assumption that you they once
you get through that kind of first try
you know that first trimester that
you're that you're okay and that nothing
can really happen to the baby
unfortunately that's not always the case
we saw right right
things like infection can cause
spontaneous losses and in the babies so
you really have to watch your symptoms
and follow up with your doctor if you
feel like there's something wrong and I
can see you know she had described that
she thought she was suffering a virus
and it comes to turn out that she had
pneumonia in her blood is is the theory
how does that you know we know of
ammonia as an infection in the lungs but
can it actually spread to your blood yes
it absolutely can it can spread to your
blood system and make you very sick so
you know it is important for you to
follow up with your doctor if you are
feeling like you know what I'm not
feeling so great because I have a cough
or really muscle aches or anything
that's kind of out of the ordinary with
the pregnancy it's interesting too we
don't know if she did that or not you
know but the reality is too as when
you're pregnant you're so ambivalent to
take any kind of medicine and you sort
of really kind of suffer through it and
and and who's to say that you don't
think that maybe this is something
associated with the pregnancy that
you're not feeling well you know that
you're nauseous and it's easy to maybe
miss signs of a virus that might need
you to you know to call the doctor right
right absolutely absolutely I mean there
are certain certain signs of pregnancy
that are common relatively common you
know nausea vomiting but if you feel
usually around the you know second third
trimester you kind of know what the
signs are so if you kind of feel like
okay this is out of the ordinary of what
I'm usually feeling you can even just
have a conversation with your doctor and
they can tell you either come in for an
evaluation or kind of give you some tips
and tricks in order to help you recover
the reality is I mean you know I know
that illness can cause miscarriages but
sometimes they just happen they just
happen yeah unfortunately sometimes they
just happen on their own and there's
nothing really that you did wrong or
that anything could have been done to
help prevent it yeah I don't blame
yourself right matic enough we have some
statistics actually specifically looking
for March of Dimes ten to fifteen
percent of pregnancies end in
miscarriage the American Pregnancy
Association says that number could
actually be as high as twenty five
percent which means basically one in
four women could go through this is
there anything that you can do to
prevent a miscarriage in some cases no
there's nothing really that can be done
but if you do have cases of recurrent
miscarriage we can do some blood work to
see if you have you know certain
diseases or conditions that predispose
you to having miscarriages and and you
know prenatal care we talk about it all
the time and that is a good way also to
make sure that you're taking care of
your body to help you know and hopefully
have a healthy child
absolutely absolutely that's the best
defense that you have in order to help a
health healthy happy pregnancy thank you
doctor for being here - appreciate you
boys and prayers are with the Falls
family we know how difficult that this
has been