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Old 10-30-2006, 05:33 PM
Hopey Hopey is offline
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Default Re: Dealing with a loss (stillbirth)

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Hopey - having gone through two first trimester miscarriages in the last year, I'd encourage you to wait to tell people until after the first ultrasound confirms everything is going okay.

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Definitely. There's no way that I'm telling anybody until Christmas. My boss told everyone in the office at 6 weeks, and the NEXT DAY his wife had a miscarriage. One of my best friends only waited a month, and his wife miscarried the following week.

They both told me that losing the baby was horrible enough, but having people (who hadn't heard about the miscarriage) constantly approaching them afterwards to ask about how the pregnancy was going was a needless bit of extra torture.
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