I have suffered from an ectopic and I also would never classify it as a miscarriage. To me they are totally different. Also, just to clarify, many women including myself did not lose a tube.

I believe the children do a few months at a time w/ each parent. They have spent the last several months w/ NK, and we will rarely see a pic of them together, she is notoriously protective and private. Good luck getting a photo of them when they are w/ their mom. Also, I agree that technology has created a whole new way of living. My guess is that both sides of these childrens families stay extrememly connected to the kids, and each other.

I hate to harp on a point but there is the reality that her kids are indoctrinated into that cult and her husband has a whole bunch of allies who will do anythign to smear her.

However Nicole is such a BS-artist. “No plastic surgery” good lord her face is frozen like hell and her lips look odd.

Interesting comments she made abotu her kids being members of their dad’s cult.

I understand Nicole’s children desire to live in LA but why move to Nashville with your husband or back to Australia. Now granted her kids did fly out to Australia but I’m sure it would be alot of easier if they could hop in a car and drive an hour or less to their mom’s house if she lived in LA.
I mean, if my ex and my children live in LA why would I choose to live anywhere else. Granted her work takes her all over the world but atleast when she isn’t working her kids could easily go back and forth between both households which would probably be beneficial.
Nicole should have gotten herself a home in LA a long time ago.

I’m thinking that with a miscarriage you don’t see it coming, so your going to question yourself as to why it happened.

With an ectopic you know that it has to be terminated, and correct me if I’m wrong but don’t you also lose the tube as well and therefore, you become half as successful at conceiving.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is they both sound horribly sad but I understand why people would speak about them in different terms. Even though the results are sadly the same.

I remember reading about that with Gillian Anderson, which was interesting because she is a very private person. I think she makes the distinction because after having Piper and then being contractually unallowed to have another child with The X-Files, she really wanted to have another baby and so both the miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy were hard on her, especially for someone who conceived so easily and without knowing it, the first time. I imagine both are traumatic but with ectopic, it isn’t a problem with the baby, just where it happened to attach. In Gillian’s case she went on to have baby Oscar although it was a scandal because she was still married to another man at the time when she conceived with the new man. I read her say that after suffering what she had, she can’t just then give that child up just because it was not conceived in the most perfect of circumstances.

I hope that Nicole is able to have a healthy pregnancy and delivery if that is what she wants.

Medically speaking, I suppose ectopic and miscarriage are the same thing, however, personally…. I’ve been through an ectopic, and I’ve never once referred to it as a miscarriage. I was 10 weeks along before it was discovered. I guess for me I feel that a miscarriage is when the body naturally loses the baby, and not when medical intervention is necessary.

I agree with Robyn. Sometimes with a miscarriage, there is a problem with the baby and you lose it. It’s tragic. With an ectopic, you have a perfectly healthy baby who happens to be in the wrong spot and you have to have surgery (usually) to remove and terminate this perfectly formed baby. Granted, I have never had a miscarriage, but I have had an ectopic and I still think about the fact that my baby’s heart was beating right up until it was surgically removed from my body.

(I’m not implying in any way that an ectopic pregnancy is worse than an miscarriage, but it is different and I think anyone who has had both would certainly differentiate. Whenever anyone referred to my “miscarriage” I corrected them.)

i always forget Nicole has kids! I guess that living so far away from your cildren when you area movie star is different then an average couple. Nicole or her kids could hop on a plane any time they wanted. The average person could never afford that.

I havent seen any pics of the kids recently with either Tom or Nicole.

Interesting..As someone who has had 2 ectopics and 1 miscarriage I was more mentally and emotionally attached to the ectopics…because in my mind they were both living breathing babies who just formed in the wrong spot..With my second ectopic the baby actually had a heartbeat.
So I understand why people make a difference between the two..