Having lived this thread, can emphasise it's weird how everyone is always so quiet about miscarriage. The soft word belies how dark it is.https://twitter.com/glitter_brawl/status/887246009042161664 …
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We don't talk about it before week 12 because babies die A LOT before week 12. Like, a ton, really. And I believe to some it would be more >
of a nuisance to go around telling everyone they lost their baby. Because you get so much fake pity left and right that's just not helping >
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but making the eventual pain so much worse.
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Yeah, I do get that. Maybe it's a failure of society that we can't view pre-12 weeks as a "maybe" thing, for ourselves and others.
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It just frustrates me when I see those who'd love to talk about it sat with others who feel the same, but no-one knows because secrets?
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I'm not even sure if it's (only) secrets. Can't imagine a lot of conversations that would get to the point of "Yeah I had a dead baby"?
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And it doesn't seem like that great of a conversation starter.
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I mean, not at Pizza Express, certainly.
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