Losing a child is not an easy journey and can be emotionally taxing for you and your partner. We wanted to let you know that you aren’t alone and this happens more often than you think. According to the American Pregnancy Association, 10-15% of pregnancies end in miscarriages. It is important for you and your partner to be sensitive to each other. Let intimate friends and family members know that you are in mourning of your child even if you think this is difficult to share with others.
Be There for Your Significant Other
You will experience the loss of the baby in a completely different way than your significant other and that is totally okay. We all mourn loss differently and you should be accepting of how they are coping with it. Let them
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You need to change your perspective and think of miscarriage as something that happened to you and not something you did. You have no control over a pregnancy may pan out. Changing your perspective will help you cope with the guilt that you are feeling.
Getting Closure of this Miscarriage
At some point, you and your significant other will have to move on to what happened, but this does not mean that you have to forget about your baby. Take all the time you need to mourn this loss. It is important to remember that just how people mourn differently, people also get closure differently. Make sure that you and your significant other get the closure that you need even if it is different. Give yourself the permission to do anything to get the closure you need to move on. You can do a little ceremony to honor your baby or write how you feel in a journal.
Get Emotional Support from Loved Ones
You don’t have to rely on your significant other for emotional support. Lean on close family members and friends. Join online or local support groups with other women or couples who are dealing with a miscarriage. Ask your OBGYN if they have any recommendations for these support
way to start off, and you and the un-born child would be so much better off if
There are other options instead of an abortion. One could set up an adoption plan instead. They both still come with pain but knowing that a child could have a life is a better feeling. An adoption is giving away all legal rights to another family to take care of a child that somebody cannot. There is also open adoption, which is where the birth mother and the adoptive parents come to an agreement where they can get regular updates on the child. They could get pictures, meetings with parents or even play dates with the child. The law however does not enforce that method.
It is ironic that pregnancy is perceived as a disappointment, a burden. As if the couple didn’t have enough going on as it was, let’s
The pain and devastation are indescribable … and single persons – and even parents – will never feel this devastation until they experience losing a child themselves.
Go ahead and have a good cry. When you’re pregnant, repressed emotions hormonal or otherwise, can ferment, bubble, and become toxic when they 're not released. If you happen to have an outburst in public, just shrug to the people staring at you and offer this perfectly acceptable explanation, "I 'm pregnant."
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck both delve deep into the dangers of McCarthyism and groupthink. Both works fully illustrate the repercussions of falling prey to the whims of the accuser. While the public is easily swayed and led along by these people, like Abigail and Senator McCarthy, they are much less keen to address the underlying problems that allowed hysteria to bloom in the first place. The two stories highlight how underlying problems fester into more wide-spanning issues when people focus on fabricated issues rather than the real problems they experience. Both stories make clear how and why the leaders in these hysterical movements use the public for their own gain.
It is important for people to know that there are other people there for them. Their concern and commitment are genuine, and they care about what happens to the woman and her unborn child.
...ve yourself some time to heal and let things flow naturally. Do not grieve alone. It is important to let the people who care about you know how you are feeling.
Pregnancy can be an exciting and sometimes frightening experience for many women. It was a snowy Sunday afternoon, and I was not feeling very well. I remember all week long, every morning I felt nauseated. I was craving odd foods, and foods I normally would not eat together. I was on the phone with my best friend explaining to her how I was feeling. She said “It sounds like you are pregnant.” That thought never even crossed my mind until that moment. Sure enough she was right, I was pregnant for the first time. I was excited to have a baby and never realized how many emotions or complications can take place during a pregnancy. Everybody that I knew that had babies, had such wonderful experiences. Unfortunately, this happy moment became such a monumental, emotional and stressful time in my life. During my pregnancy, I went through many emotional experiences from almost losing my child, to the uncertainty of a birth defect and early delivery.
My boyfriend and I were so happy; we were such a “perfect couple.” He was truly a great guy, and I ,a well rounded character. I thought I knew him but fate would prove me wrong. He once told me that we would make it through anything, but I knew this was different he had dreams, and so much potential, this would surely detour him from his goals in life. My partner knew as well as I did that me getting pregnant was an accident but in the end he did not hesitate walking out on me, and there my chaos began.
Imagine growing up without a father. Imagine a little girl who can’t run to him for protection when things go wrong, no one to comfort her when a boy breaks her heart, or to be there for every monumental occasion in her life. Experiencing the death of a parent will leave a hole in the child’s heart that can never be filled. I lost my father at the young of five, and every moment since then has impacted me deeply. A child has to grasp the few and precious recollections that they have experienced with the parent, and never forget them, because that’s all they will ever have. Families will never be as whole, nor will they forget the anguish that has been inflicted upon them. Therefore, the sudden death of a parent has lasting effects on those
Everyday, people are faced with choices. Some of life’s choices are simple, such as deciding what to wear to school or choosing a television station to watch. Other choices, however, are much more serious and have life-altering consequences. Being pregnant has many choices, whether or not to keep the baby. There are many choices such as adoption, or abortion. I decided that I would keep my baby because I knew in my heart that I would regret it in the long run if I didn’t. Throughout my pregnancy I suffered from depression, which is the condition of feeling sad or despondent mentally. My depression was mainly due to the fact that I was sixteen, alone, and scared, I was a waitress at a local restaurant, but that job couldn’t pay for all the financial needs it takes to raise a child. I left my baby’s father when all the arguing and physical abuse began. I couldn’t deal with that and I definitely wasn’t going to raise my child through it. Although I knew deep down that this big decision was for the best, it was still difficult and very painful. Just the thought of raising a child alone was scary. My parents were so disappointed in me they really didn’t have much to say, especially my mother. That made my pregnancy worse because I felt as though I had no one to talk to. I had friends to talk to but most of them didn’t understand what I was going through.
Once you have mourned the death of a loved one it’s important to start to move on. Don’t
The death of a child is the most devastating loss a parent can ever experience. When a parent losses a child, something in the parents die too. The loss not only destroys the parents’, but also leaves an emptiness that can never be filled. The expectations and hopes of a future together are all just a dream now. Burying your child defies the natural order of life events: parents are not supposed to bury their children, children are supposed to bury their parents. Their life is forever changed and will never be the same. The parent not only mourns the loss of the child, but also mourns the loss of their child’s future. Parents will often visualize what their child could have been when they grew up or think about all the potential they had.
I told my boyfriend who was the captain of our football team three weeks after I found out, about the pregnancy. ?What?? He yelled out in surprise, with his six feet four inches, two hundred and ten pounds body shaking from fear. ?We can work through this baby? I told him, trying to soothe his spirit. I remembered Jake and I always being happy, we were the perfect couple. I thought I knew him but with the condition I was in he proved me wrong. ?I love you and with this love we will conquer anything that becomes an obstacle,? he once told me. This situation on the other hand was different. He had dreams, and with so much potential, the last thing Jak...