What constitutes a pregnancy loss?
Pregnancy loss is a term that gets thrown around a lot and can mean different things to different people. For some it is defined by the stage of gestation at which a pregnancy ends and the baby dies. Another family might define pregnancy loss in terms of planning, as in, the pregnancy was planned and ended early without a baby, excluding miscarriages where the pregnancy wasn't planned.
The truth is, pregnancy loss is as you define it. It doesn't mean that you can ever be "too early" in pregnancy to be "allowed" to grieve. It doesn't mean that if you weren't planning a pregnancy and got pregnant that you should refrain from being sad. It doesn't even mean that if you didn't know you were pregnant until you experienced a loss that you don't "qualify."
Pregnancy loss is in your heart. Do you hold in your heart a baby that is no longer here with you, however you want to define that? If the answer is yes, then you should consider how to grieve that loss and celebrate that life, no matter how brief.
Saturday, October 15th is set aside as a day of remembrance for pregnancy loss. (This is a yearly day of remembrance.) Who do you hold in your heart and how will you celebrate their life?
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