الثلاثاء، 13 أكتوبر 2015

Baby loss awareness week: we need to talk about miscarriage

Around one in five pregnancies end in miscarriage and yet when it happened to her, Janet Murray found herself ashamed to talk about it. She explains why the issue needs a bigger conversation

A week after my first miscarriage, I drove 140 miles from my home in Kent in to Stratford-upon-Avon for a two-day conference. Although my heart was aching – and my body too – staying at home wasn’t an option. Women had miscarriages every day of the week, didn’t they? I couldn’t sit at home feeling sorry for myself.

Over a gala dinner, I drank too much wine and poured my heart out to the woman to my right – a mother of four who listened kindly and patted my arm as I struggled to hold back tears. Later on, I dropped it into conversation with a male colleague.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1K84DeN

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