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When couples need different healing timelines after pregnancy loss

My wife miscarried at 16 weeks and we're both devastated but she wants to try again immediately while I'm terrified of going through this again, and I don't know how to say I need time without making her feel like I don't want a baby as much as she does.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are processing the same trauma at different speeds while trying to honor both their shared grief and individual readiness.

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