Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian vividly recalls caring for a patient with influenza in the fall of 2007, and then becoming ill herself.
She was newly pregnant, and in her second year of medical residency at the University of Michigan Health. Bagdasarian eventually recovered from the flu, but the fetus growing within her never did.
“Emotionally, it was devastating,” she said of her second-trimester pregnancy loss. “I had started to show. People knew I was pregnant. I planned on maternity leave. I had started buying maternity clothes. We’d started getting the nursery ready.”…