'I was already overwhelmed by the intensity of pain I felt for a child I had never met. Then, with one succinct sentence, this woman managed to completely invalidate the grief I was beginning to allow myself to feel.'
we wanted to explore the devastation of pregnancy loss. For me, it was an attempt to make sense of my personal experiences, to answer a lingering question: Why is this type of loss so crippling? There is the loss of the baby, of course, along with the loss of the dream of motherhood, the imagined future; but there is also a loss of innocence, a loss of faith, a loss of control.
It’s worth noting that some women may take comfort in the predictable and stable routine of the workplace after a loss. But many of us who return to work are not ready to be there. Inabout the loss of her son, Teddy, Elle Wright says, “The thought of going back, facing everyone…quite frankly made me physically sick.” Most of us have to go back though. Most of us have to do the best we can, while being painfully aware that, as Rebecca Dube writes in “,” “U.S.