A thoughtful study of pregnancy loss offers a candid discussion that few are prepared to have
It is estimated that one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and yet it is an experience that remains largely ignored – a grief that the world seemingly doesn’t know how to talk about. In The Brink of Being, psychotherapist Julia Bueno draws on her own personal experience, stories from her consulting room, and interactions with experts, to examine miscarriage within its broader cultural, medical and historical context – encouraging us to think more, and think differently, about pregnancy loss.
The heartbreaking loss of twin daughters, Matilda and Florence, at 22 weeks ripped Bueno’s world apart, leaving her irrevocably changed – time now divided into the “before”, and the “after”. The acute feelings of despair, sadness, guilt, shame, bitterness, anger (and every other emotion in between), that so often accompany miscarriage, were only exacerbated by the lack of understanding of her suffering.
Losing a baby is such a big part of so many lives yet we’re mainly living it in the shadows, weighed down by feelings
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