The Anxiety Report

Mary Murry, R.N., C.N.M., wrote an article that I think should be mentioned here on the Anxiety Report. Miscarriage is something that very few people talk about with any real understanding. In her article, Murry makes it painfully clear when she says,

“When we discover that we are pregnant, we don’t think of zygotes, embryos or fetuses. We think of babies. We think of sons and daughters. We start planning the minute we know we’re pregnant. So when a woman miscarries she loses a baby. It doesn’t matter if she is 7 weeks or 15 weeks.”

That is a potent paragraph. The moment that the woman knows she is pregnant is the moment that baby becomes the future, is human, is hers! What Murry teaches us is that the sadness and sense of loss is very real. But it’s a piece at the bottom of the article that cause me to post it here,

We just don’t talk about it with anyone. This is when the silence can end. These women know your sorrow, your loss. Talk to women who know your sorrow and loss, and share your feelings. You can do it here, or on other sites just for women who have lost babies. You will find a community of women who understand.

Let’s rethink that statement into some that says, We anxiety people don’t talk about with anyone.  But we can find others who know out situation, just like the woman who miscarried can find a place to share sorrow and loss.   We can talk to others in the same boat as we are, share our feelings, and determine how best to push forward in the never ending process of living our lives.

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