As a society, we are starting to acknowledge and talk about miscarriage and baby loss. Society imposes a time limit on how long a woman can publicly grieve a miscarriage, but the psychic damage lingers. There are women suffering grief and trauma years, often decades, after pregnancy loss at all stages of gestation. Grief, trauma, whatever you want to call it, doesn't look for your permission to visit. I looked as far and wide as I could for stories of miscarriage and baby loss, and that helped me to normalise and contextualise my personal horror.

Source: Irish Independent January 17, 2020 02:31 UTC