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How pregnancy imaging complicates loss

I saw the ultrasound of my miscarriage and cannot stop thinking about how something that looked so much like a baby on the screen was declared not viable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Visual evidence of life can make medical definitions of viability feel arbitrary and increase the weight of grief.

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“Where Are You with Medical imaging and what it shows?”

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