Similarly, when people are sharing news about another's pregnancy loss, they more often talk and to more
people about a miscarriage than an abortion.
Normally you'd feel thrilled to not feel sick, but if you were already
nervous about miscarriage, it's easy to assume the worst.
Many women blame themselves, creating unnecessary suffering, and it is my hope that with more
awareness about miscarriage, this self - blame and suffering will be reduced.
If you are in a later stage of pregnancy and
worried about miscarriage, your first step should always be to call your physician.
Learning
more about miscarriage and your treatment options can start you on the road to understanding your emotions and healing from the experience.
I found some very insightful and comforting messages there that helped me deal with my grief and concerns
about my miscarriage at 13 weeks as well as my premature daughter at 22 weeks who was a live birth.
Posted to: Journalism Parenting November 6th, 2009 Del.icio.us I block out the morning to write a thousand - word essay for the Guardian to justify
tweeting about my miscarriage.
Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I wake up Wednesday at 4 am to a phone call: The Guardian, in London, asking for an
interview about my miscarriage twitter.
Posted to: Journalism Parenting November 6th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I wake up Wednesday at 4 am to a phone call: The Guardian, in London, asking for an interview
about my miscarriage twitter.
While every mom will process her loss differently, and every dad will have a different reaction to the news, there are a number of things that other moms need to
know about miscarriage.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) even released a
statement about the miscarriage study, saying that all pregnant women should still get the flu shot.
I'll even
write about miscarriages and loss, about how it feels to labour only to end up with death and longing, sorrow staining backwards and forwards, changing everything.
I don't talk
about my miscarriage as much as I talk about my stillbirth, but I believe that the vast majority of women who make the choice to terminate have the same gut - wrenching, sad feelings that I did at the time.
Here are fifteen
things about miscarriage that women who have gone through it aren't sure other moms actually understand.
For decades (or longer) there has been much complacency and outright
acceptance about miscarriage, stillbirth and even neonatal death (though there have been some premature prevention campaigns), rather than outrage which should have led to decades of research by now.
It didn't do nearly as well at the box office as it did with critics, which is the case for each of these movies, including the Emily Dickinson biopic «A Quiet Passion» and the funny, bittersweet
musical about a miscarriage «Band Aid.»
In the long term the civil justice reforms may not be as significant an influence for change in the use of experts as the concern
about the miscarriages of justice in the criminal system, arising from the discredited forensic expert evidence in notorious cases in the 1980s and 1990s, and from the sudden infant death and child abuse cases more recently.
If you
read about miscarriage, and that's probably a good thing to do if you have a friend or relative that's been through it — you'll find that one in six pregnancies end in a miscarriage and it's supposedly Mother Nature's way of dealing with defective fetuses.
Learn more
about miscarriages at six weeks and what to look for if you're concerned about miscarrying at this stage.
Nonfiction
books about miscarriages or infertility (I am so sorry you have struggled with this, my heart breaks for you, but I am not your target audience.)
If you have bleeding or cramping along with your loss of morning sickness, however, there is more reason to be
concerned about miscarriage — and you should call your physician to find out what's going on.
In a society where women are conditioned to hide their early pregnancy like a dirty little secret, it becomes difficult and near impossible for women to
talk about their miscarriage or to take time away from work without worrying about being reprimanded or terminated.
About the miscarriages, I've had 5 and my fertility doctor was fine with me nursing during pregnancy (and drinking my morning coffee too, by the way).
(My OB / GYN wanted me to stop and filled my head with scary stories & statistics
about miscarriage.)
I spoke with one of my absolutely wonderful midwives later that night, Heather, and she so very kindly and gently talked to
me about miscarriage and what I could expect along with what options we have.
About stillbirth,
about miscarriage, about grief, about it all?
After her own experiences with loss, Katie has become passionate about speaking out
about miscarriage and ending the stigma that comes with it.