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The Worst Girl Gang Ever.
By Bex Gunn and Laura Buckingham.
We are here to tell you that you are entitled to grieve, and that your grief is not disproportionate to your loss.
Letβs get talking. Letβs get sharing. Letβs start empowering and supporting one another.
No more shame, no more taboo, no more silence.
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I don't get to review words that come from such a personal place in someone else's life. The Worst Girl Gang Ever will hold a different significance to anyone who reads it.
This is me.
I have been pregnant 6 times. I have two boys and two girls living at home, one beautiful little girl that passed away eight days before her first birthday and another that is known as a Blighted Ovum.
Blighted Ovum.
A blighted ovum, also called an anembryonic pregnancy, occurs when an early embryo never develops or stops developing, is resorbed and leaves an empty gestational sac. The reason this occurs is often unknown, but it may be due to chromosomal abnormalities in the fertilized egg.
I knew I was pregnant before any test, I had symptoms. I could feel it.
I knew I was having a boy, that was quite evident because of the travel sickness.
What I didn't know is they left the sac long before they had a chance.
How do you grieve this type of loss.
How do you grieve a phenomenon you never knew existed.
These are not questions but facts.
You don't get support. It is what it is. Thankfully I didn't need it, but many would.
I didn't naturally miscarry, the sac was there for keeps.
I had to abort.. I had to take the tablets, I had to sit by myself in a room until the deed was done.
Alone. Only my thoughts. Then bleed and home.
I coped. I won't apologise for coping, I won't apologise for my personal strength.
But It's hard and the support just isn't there.. And for that, something needs to change.
Never let anyone undermine your grief.. Its yours, you need it and you're damn right entitled to it.. no matter the circumstance.
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Definitely worth a read/listen. We don't always know how to approach loss due to miscarriage, it's about time we do.
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