Category Archives: Physical Process of Miscarriage

A loss confirmed

Today a friend of mine found out her baby died.  A missed miscarriage is what they call it.  She had mentioned sitting in the ultrasound room, half naked, waiting for the doctor to come in.  I remembered it. It was 15 years ago this week.  I can’t believe it has been that long.  I had...

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A Father’s Story: Mourning the baby we never had

This article was originally from Oprah.com, republished on CNNLiving.  This kind of thing is huge–miscarriage being talked about in venues of this magnitude. It started perfectly. A rocking romance, magical wedding, and a decadent honeymoon. My wife stomps out of the bathroom, half-smiling, half-accusatory, holding a plastic stick with a plus sign and yelling, “Ian,...

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Not “just a heavy period”

(copied with permission from Mindful Serenity by Jenni Brighton) I have heard lots of people say that “a miscarriage is basically just like a heavy period.” That is simply not true. Don’t say it. Don’t think it. Don’t be fooled by it. A miscarriage that occurs in the first few weeks of pregnancy may have...

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