Dealing With Miscarriage – Telling Friends

December 2, 2011

With any pregnancy loss even the closest of friends can struggle to know what to say and know whether to bring up what has happened or not. Because of their lack of understanding, we are often forced to listen to well-meaning (but unwanted) advice and encouragement like: “At least it was early before you got [...]

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Coping with Miscarriage – Making Difficult Decisions

November 25, 2011

The process of losing our babies is devastating, particularly when everything is geared toward new life, which instead turns into an unexpected death. Often the process of losing our baby has been long and intense, leaving us physically exhausted and emotionally vulnerable as we are confronted by the heartbreaking loss. Effective decision-making is challenging when [...]

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Miscarriage Grief

November 18, 2011

The Oxford English Dictionary[1] defines grief as “deep or violent sorrow, keen regret”. However, in our lives strict definitions rarely apply. Grief can take on many forms and is often unpredictable in its presentation. The loss of someone we love always triggers a grief process. Our reactions to grief are influenced by many factors, including [...]

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How to Cope with a Miscarriage – Our Decisions

November 11, 2011

There are potentially so many decision to make before, during and after a miscarriage that it can leave us wondering whether we have done the right thing. The process of losing our babies is devastating, particularly when everything is geared toward new life, which instead turns into an unexpected death. Often the process of losing [...]

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How to Deal with a Miscarriage

November 7, 2011

Expressing emotions, both positive and negative is the key to emotional healing after a miscarriage or stillbirth. Our healing lies in the expression of our feelings. Fear, sadness and anger are all essential to the human experience. To be complete, we need to acknowledge all of our emotions, positive and negative. Repressing the negative emotions [...]

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Exploring Fear After Miscarriage

November 4, 2011

Exploring and Expressing Fear after miscarriage is important for each of us. Fear occurs when we know we may lose something we want and value. While anger and sadness may seem the most obvious responses to the loss of our babies, it is important to explore any fears that have been created from the experience. [...]

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Types of Miscarriages

October 30, 2011

We have all heard the different names for miscarriage and pregnancy loss, chemical miscarriage, ectopic miscarriage, blighted ovum miscarriage and so on.  A pregnancy loss prior to 20 weeks is more commonly called a miscarriage and after 20 weeks, a stillbirth, both experiences can leave us feeling broken and lost. Regardless of the type of [...]

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Sadness After Miscarriage

October 21, 2011

Sadness occurs when we lose something we want and value. In our society, we tend to try to stop people from crying, instead of encouraging them to continue and helping them to explore the depths of their feelings. Most people put a lot of effort into shaking sadness, but it has its advantages. It enforces [...]

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Coping with Miscarriage – Emotional Expression

October 14, 2011

Before we can express our feelings while coping with miscarriage, we may have to go to battle with our mental programming. Because we have been trained to hold back our emotions, we may still find ourselves choking back tears and appearing cool in spite of our anger or fear. This will only keep us stuck. [...]

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