Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.
I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.