Meghan McCain announced she’s pregnant, months after she suffered a miscarriage.
“My husband Ben and I have been blessed to find out I’m pregnant,” she said in a statement Sunday. “I consulted with my doctors and they advised me that for the safety of our baby and myself, I should be extra vigilant about limiting the amount of people we come in contact with.”
The View co-host said she would stay home to limit her exposure to other people amid the coronavirus outbreak but would continue appearing on the show via home satellite.
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— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 22, 2020
McCain, 35, revealed in July that she suffered a miscarriage, calling it a “horrendous experience.” In a piece she wrote for the New York Times, she said she originally blamed herself for the loss.
“Perhaps it was wrong of me to choose to be a professional woman, working in a high-pressure, high-visibility, high-stress field, still bearing the burden of the recent loss of my father and facing on top of that the arrows that come with public life. This is not a complaint. This is reality. I blamed my age, I blamed my personality. I blamed everything and anything a person could think of, and what followed was a deep opening of shame. This, I told myself, is the reason my body is a rock-strewn wasteland in which no child may live. This is my fault. Yet it is not my fault,” she wrote.
About 10%-20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, though the actual number is thought to be higher because many miscarriages happen before a woman knows she is pregnant, according to the Mayo Clinic.
