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When others minimize your pregnancy or infant loss

I lost my child in a miscarriage at seven months and people do not seem to understand that I lost a baby, not just a pregnancy, and their minimizing makes me feel crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Society's discomfort with early death creates hierarchies of grief that deny the parent's full experience of love and loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief of a child — the unnatural loss?”

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