Studies Acknowledge How Traumatic Miscarriage Is — So Why Doesn’t Society?

The traumatic aftermath of a miscarriage, even an early one, is an empirically proven, statistically significant trend.

When you have a miscarriage, everybody wants you to feel better. A lot of people want you to feel better at any cost, even the cost of denying what’s actually happened. So they try to comfort you, but their comfort sounds a lot like dismissal:

I was told, “It’s for the best. You wouldn’t have wanted an unhealthy baby. You’ll be pregnant again before you know it.”

One of my friends got, “You have too many kids anyway.


Anna O'Neil
Anna O'Neilhttp://aleteia.org
Anna O'Neil writes, raises kids, and gets excited about birds. She lives by the motto that "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly," and spends most of her free time trying to figure out what she's supposed to be doing with her free time. You can find her writing at Aleteia, Verily, and Mind&Spirit.

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