She said at the time: 'About two years
ago, I was pregnant for the first time. And I heard the heartbeat, which
was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life.
'I
flew back to New York to get my check up - and no heartbeat. Literally
the week before I went to the doctor, everything was fine, but there was
no heartbeat.
'I went into the studio
and wrote the saddest song I've ever written in my life. And it was
actually the first song I wrote for my album.
'And it was the best form of therapy for me, because it was the saddest thing I've ever been through.'
(The track is called Heartbeat. Jay-Z also briefly referenced the miscarriage in his song Glory.)
Beyonce was thrilled when she discovered she was expecting Blue Ivy and found it hard to keep the news to herself to begin with.
Doting parents: The couple with the five-year-old daughter Blue Ivy in June
Speaking
in her TV show Life Is But a Dream, Beyonce said: 'Being pregnant was
very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed.
'There's
no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you, so of
course you want to scream it out and tell everyone.'
Shortly
after welcoming Blue Ivy, she revealed she wanted more children,
telling US Vogue: 'When I was younger, there were moments where I said,
"I'm not going to have children", and then there were moments when I
wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know
when.'