In the book, Becoming, Mrs Obama reveals that she had a miscarriage and used in vitro fertilisation to conceive both children, Malia and Sasha.
I guess it finally dawned on him that two bucks can't make a sprog by rump-ranging each other. No way he had a miscarriage. You need a uterus for that. Mike neglects to mention they used a "gestational carrier" - in other words, rent-a-womb.

The fawning of the BBC in this article is pretty sickening.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46154857