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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Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.

— Kathryn Miller Ridiman

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

— Joseph Hall

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

— Robert Bolt

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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