TTC after infant loss

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Reasons why it may be challenging:

You may revisit some grief while trying to conceive. “I’ll love this one better” (bargaining), intense fear of the pregnancy until reaching certain milestones like hearing the heartbeat or feeling the baby kicking (could be an aspect of denial).

Reasons why it may be beneficial:

Your next baby, as an adult, might learn from you that you had once lost a baby, their older sibling, and know that you may have considered not trying again, and the decision to try, and to conceive that child, may be significant to him or her.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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I would not undo his existence just to undo my pain.

— stillbirthday mother, http://www.stillbirthday.com

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

— George Eliot

Much more than pro-life or pro-choice, I am pro-healing.

— an SBD Doula

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

— T.S. Eliot

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

— Jean Cocteau

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