Pregnancy after loss was a fundamentally different experience. I felt so vulnerable and full of fear and struggled to manage my anxiety. I lived from scan to scan and we told nobody save parents until well after 20 weeks.
I hid my growing bump. My counsellor was an incredible source of support during this time and it really helped to have a safe space to talk about my fears and be reassured that my feelings were normal. Nearly 3 years after we started trying for a second child, our beautiful son was born.
His middle name is Samuel, after the son of the biblical Hannah, another longed-for child. We will never forget how it felt to struggle to complete our family. The three we lost may not have had names or faces but for a short time they were part of our family and our imagined future. Our experience has left other scars too. We are often shocked and humbled by our first encounters with the limitations of the flesh.
And many of these first encounters occur in the realm of fertility. Our miscarriages were all first trimester losses so we made the choice to go through them privately. Very few people knew about what was happening to us but this also meant that I endured many painful conversations during those years.
Those who asked me meant well, but had no idea of the private pain their innocent questions caused. Pregnancy Complications. Signs of Miscarriage A pregnancy that ends on its own within the first 20 weeks of gestation is called a miscarriage. It is….
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Please try again. Something went wrong on our side, please try again. Show references Gabbe SG, et al. Obstetric ultrasound: Imaging, dating, growth, and anomaly. In: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies.
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