The sweet moment from my miscarriage that I choose to remember pregnancyandinfantlossawareness
On the morning after my miscarriage four summers ago, my then four-year-old daughter gave me the sweetest Get Well card, or as she wrote it, Get Mell. I was bedridden on a Tuesday morning, feeling horrible and having barely slept the night before, though. I told her that Mommy wasn’t feeling well, and Daddy was going to have to make her breakfast.
“Sweet Potato,” I said, “this is the nicest card I’ve ever gotten. I think Mommy is ready to get up now.” Countless women know the pain, both physical and emotional, of miscarriage. While I have several friends who’ve had one,until you’ve experienced it. I consider myself very lucky that mine happened early, around 10 weeks, before I could get overly excited about due dates and finding out the baby’s sex, much less telling friends and family the news. I was also mentally prepared for it to happen since my first OB appointment had been, shall we say, less than stellar.
After a stressful week of waiting, my husband and I went to my ultrasound appointment. The technician was chatty, but when we got down to doing the sonogram, she was all business. She moved the wand around for a few seconds before telling us, “You are most likely having a miscarriage.” Well, that settled that. She went on to say the fetus was measuring nearly six weeks, which was so confusing, because didn’t that indicate a week’s growth? But she was unequivocal. “This is probably a miscarriage.
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