Sara Walsh Reveals On-Air Miscarriage While At ESPN

BRISTOL, CT — In a deeply personal Mother's Day message on social media, former "Sports Center" personality Sara Walsh said she suffered a miscarriage while on the air at the University of Alabama.

She was recently let go by ESPN. “The juxtaposition of college kids going nuts behind our set, while I was losing a baby on it, was surreal,” Walsh wrote on the Instagram post, adding she was three months pregnant at the time. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

She added, “I was scared, nobody knew I was pregnant, so I did the show while having a miscarriage ... My husband had to watch this unfold from more than a thousand miles away, texting me hospital options during commercial breaks."

Walsh offered a moving account of the tribulations she and her husband, major league pitcher Matt Buschmann, went through that involved "two failed pregnancies" but culminated with in vitro fertilization and the eventual birth of fraternal twins in January.

She accompanied the post with a photo of the twins wearing onesies with "good egg" on the front.

"My mother bought them these onesies because she thought they were funny," Walsh wrote. "For us, they're especially poignant. Finding a good egg didn't come easy for me, and I suspect there are many people out there facing the same struggle.

"I wasn't on TV today, and I'm not sure when I will be again, but instead I got to hang with these two good eggs. My ONLY good eggs. And I know how lucky I really am."

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