Miscarriages are indeed very sad events. For the mum who has lost a bub. For her partner. For the extended family.

And all that makes it extra, extra, sad if a woman has three miscarriages, as has Helen, the wife of NSW premier Dominic Perrottet.

But what’s also sad is for The Bug’s Media Glass House to have to reluctantly ask a simple question: what was the purpose of the large article in Tuesday’s Sydney Morning Herald’s state election pages on Mrs Perrottet’s miscarriage history?

It’s true that the piece by chief reporter Jordan Baker runs some pars well down in the piece from a support group helping women with pregnancy loss and its call for more support for them.

But that basic question lingers, Why this article? And why now?

And the most probable, rather sad, answer is that someone in the LNP thought the article would garner sympathy for the Premier and his family and that could result in some extra votes at the ballot box. If the polls and the bookies are right, the Premier needs all the help he can get.

Another possible answer, given the shit state of the nation’s mainstream media at the moment and how most of the MSM in NSW is working hard to see the LNP government reelected, is that the SMH proactively created the article, perhaps hoping for the same result.

Can we at the MGH be blunt? What Mrs Perrottet went through was awful and you wouldn’t wish it on anyone. But she has given birth to seven perfectly healthy wee-un Perrottets as well. Given how common miscarriages are, it was probably par for the course that she might have struck difficulties with a few of those 10 pregnancies.

The Bug’s own family has the very sad story of one healthy child delivered, only to have any hopes of a second bundle of joy shattered for ever by three miscarriages. We should also spare a thought for families who never have any children as a result of miscarriages.

And we’ll also take exception with our journalist’s description of Mrs Perrottet as “the epitomy of the parenting juggle” just because she has seven kids.

Really, Jordan Baker, chief reporter? Didn’t give a moment’s for the countless single mums of two or three out there on welfare without any family support whatsoever. They might be the judge of that.

You know, just some poor thing in dire straits leading a life you wouldn’t wish on your worse enemy? Women who are not an accomplished lawyer or anything like that. Women without a husband on an annual salary of $800,000 plus or anything like that? Women without a good solid Catholic family network of countless fine people eager to lend a helping hand… or anything like that?

You know… women juggling with the dilemma of where their kids’ next meal is coming from. Or where they will be living tonight. Did you think of them, Jords? That’s the epitome of the parenting juggle.

And our scribe adds weight to our suspicions as to the reason for this article with some creampuff pieces at the end about what an asset Helen Perrottet has become on her husband’s campaign trail and her starring role at the LNP launch on Sunday.

And would it be churlish of us to end this by suggesting that Jordan Baker, chief reporter, has overlooked another issue. Most of Mrs Perrottet’s children will have rather lucrative future-fund bundles when they turn 18, courtesy of her husband’s main election pitch of creating bank accounts for all NSW kids 10 and under, slipping $400 into those accounts and then topping them up with $400 each year up to age 18 if parents or others match that amount.

You average single-mum’s kids won’t have anywhere near those amounts. Truth be known many will have $400 all up!

That’s your epitome of the parenting juggle, Jordan Baker!