Showing posts with label miscarriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miscarriage. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Miscarriage as Shameful: The Real Reason There's a Culture of Secrecy Surrounding the First Trimester


Two years ago, as I was bleeding out what remained of my miscarried baby, one of my clients asked me when Jeff and I were going to have kids. He then proceeded to guilt me for being selfish; had I been a better person, you see, I would have already inflicted my spawn on the world. Our society's insistence that women keep their pregnancies secret during the first trimester creates some really painful, strange, and awkward situations.