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What was the worst thing someone said to you after miscarriage?

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    I recently had a Mc at 12 weeks...my 2nd mc. I received a message from my husband's aunt who is 60 years old saying that if she could carry my baby for me she would. My mouth dropped open when I read that. I know she was trying to be nice but I felt like she was telling me she knows I can't have a baby.. which is not true. My doctor doesn't seem to worried at least.
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    I just miscarried over the weekend at 7 weeks, 2 days. My sister said "oh, it was only a zygote"..
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    I lost my daughter at 23 weeks 2 weeks ago. My coworker, who I loathe, said "well, better luck next time." I wanted to punch her right in her smug face.
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    "Part of God's plan." "The timing wasn't right." "At least it wasn't quite to the 'baby stage' yet." That last one was from a close family member. Then she tried comparing it to her abortions years ago. Uhm, no. I DID NOT CHOOSE THIS!
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    my cousin told people about my miscarriage- when I specifically asked my family not to tell people I was pregnant, in case something like this did happen.. So I confronted her about how upset I was that she didn't respect my wishes and she said "I'm not fighting around Xmas.. This is not about you, it's about my daughters first Xmas" ....talk about a selfish b****
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    Three days after finding out about my MMC, I was talking to SIL about how we'll try again soon. She said, "no, I wouldn't, because everything happens for a reason." I wanted to punch her in the face. This was over a month ago and I still never want to speak to her again. I will, because family, but I may never like her again.

    Me: 33     H: 36

    Married: 12/14/13   DS: 1/29/09

    BFP2: 10/9/15  MMC: 11/12/15

    BFP3: 4/6/16   DD: 12/12/16


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    I've heard some of the same statements as others here - though limited in number because we only told 1 friend and our parents. I know the comments are coming from a good/loving place (my MIL had at least one MC and a strong scare; my mom had a stillbirth at full term - they know what I'm going through and are trying to help), which seems to help me interpret the comments as coming from the right place but in the wrong wording.

    Hugs and love to everyone here - especially those with people saying dumb crap 
    ---TW BFP and MC mentioned - scroll down past the Lilo and Stitch gif to avoid ---




    Me: 33 & DH: 33
    Married: 07/2006
    TTC: 10/2015
    BFP #1: 11/2015, MC 12/2015 (7 weeks)
    BFP #2: 06/2016, EDD 2/15/2017



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    Paraphrasing: "my SIL had a miscarriage and then has a healthy set of triplets!"
    Yeah, hmmm.
    Married 10/12 & TTC since 09/15
    BFP #1 11/06/15 - EDD 7/14/16 - MMC 12/14/15 - D&C 12/22/15
    BFP #2 03/13/16 - EDD 11/26/16

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    My cousin who is very religious (I am not) told me "Everything happens for a reason... in a few months from now something will probably happen and you'll realize why it wasn't the right time for a child." 

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    My MIL (who I love dearly, but really???):  "Aw... we would have been so excited for you to announce at Christmas.  Oh well."


    Also, a random weird story about a weirdo ultrasound technician.  So we went in to have an ultrasound.  I was like 99.99% sure I had miscarried, but I was holding onto a little bit of hope that I hadn't.  They call us back an hour late, so I felt like I was going to pee my pants.  He does the ultrasound, tells us there is no heartbeat, and is about to leave the room.  He then notices my husband's shirt that says something about poetry.  He asks him if he likes to write poetry, and my husband says yes.  He then starts to RECITE POETRY TO MY HUSBAND for about 10 minutes as we both sat there awkwardly.  Like seriously?  You just told me about my dead baby, I'm about to pee myself, and my pants are pulled down for the ultrasound.  You're going to recite poetry to my husband?  The only reason he stopped was because I stood up (with my pants pulled down) and told him I needed to use the bathroom.  It was so weird!
    TTC #1 since June 2015
    BFP #1 Nov 2015 ended in MC Dec 26 2015
    BFP #2 Feb 2016, EDD Nov 8 2016




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    @Booksforme23 - That sounds like the most awkward moment of ultrasound history. I'm sorry for your MIL's insensitive comment and your weirdo ultrasound tech.
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    We Mc in december, we were gonna announce at christmas. This year's Christmas wasn't the same. Having to put on a smile when your mind is somewhere the exact opposite. The few ppl who knew, mainly my sisters and parents all told me the same thing. "If it wasn't normal maybe it's better this way" "at least u got pregnant so quick" -which the doc also said "it just wasn't meant to be I guess" now we go daily thinking about our unborn child we never got to meet. I know they mean well, but I can't help but still feel hurt that they were all just relieved things didn't workout. Seems they weren't 'ready' to be grandparents or aunts...
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    My best friend instantly changed the subject to her cat. It's actually kinda funny now that I think about it.
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    Same as you. I am only 24. Someone told us, "that usually happens the first time anyway"
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    The midwife I saw for my MC:

    "You're still really young, so that's good news"
    I'm 32, lady, and we want 2 kids. I'm not "old", but it's not "really young" either. H and I DO feel time pressure.

    "You got pregnant on your first cycle? That says great things about your fertility!"

    Thanks lady, but we wanted THIS baby, not just ANY baby.

    While the MW wasn't wrong per se, she could have had a little more tact and compassion for my current loss, and not just focused on my future fertility.
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    Man: "are you expecting a baby?"
    Me: "no. So can I get you cream with your coffee?"
    Man: "It's just that you were rubbing your belly."
    Me: "oh."
    (We both look at my belly which is still puffy from giving birth 1.5 weeks ago)
    Me: "we just had a loss."
    Man: "oh. You lost the baby?"
    Me: "yes. How about that cream?"
    Man: "That must have been very traumatic. I am sorry."
    Me: "thanks. I will go grab that coffee cream."

    He wasn't trying to be rude or invasive. And questions about my belly didn't bother me bother during pregnancy. So I understand those questions to still be coming now.

    I guess what I am so angry about is that my own body is making it so that the worst and most personal/private experience of my life is not something I can keep private.

    Having a special status in the community by virtue of my bump was such a joyful thing before our loss. Now it is marked with awkwardness and embarrassment.
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    @BooksForMe23 I am so sorry for your loss. Your story about the technician is ... unreal.
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    @alanna3622    Aww!  I'm so sorry!  I feel bad for you AND that guy who was very socially awkward but wasn't trying to be mean.

    I had a friend (not a close friend) who asked if I was pregnant because I've had to take off for a few doctor's appointments and to get blood work.  I flat out told her, "I was, but I had a miscarriage."  I think she felt like crap after that, even though I wasn't trying to make her feel bad.
    TTC #1 since June 2015
    BFP #1 Nov 2015 ended in MC Dec 26 2015
    BFP #2 Feb 2016, EDD Nov 8 2016




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    Wow...what some people say! I'm just going through a miscarriage right now. I believe I was around 5 1/2 weeks (my first pregnancy). I do believe everyone grieves differently, so sometimes when people say things they don't realize how much it hurts you if it didn't hurt them or they mean well but don't know exactly what to say. Having a miscarriage is a pretty personal thing in my opinion, and I think some people get nervous or feel awkward and say stupid things. The hardest thing is that my doctor told me "have fun trying again"....yeah I get that, but the thought of the reason WHY I need to try again stings still. I'm normally a very optimistic person, so maybe that's why I've had gleams of hopeful thoughts but that's just natural for me. I like to talk myself into being better when I'm really not. Even my hubby was saying that this just means that we'll maybe have a baby in October instead of September....um yeah, I guess that's true. He's a little more realistic than I am sometimes.

    On the flip side of things, I've had many friends who had early miscarriages who were saying the "I think my body wasn't ready because it was my first pregnancy" or "there was a reason why this happened" and seemed optimistic about things. I know that they were hurting, but they all did go on to have healthy and beautiful kids. In some weird way that does comfort me keeping that hope. It doesn't mask the fact that my baby died, but I do believe that God has a plan for me and all of us (I'm very religious which helps me cope). My mom actually told me yesterday that "sometime these things take a while and it's not easy" which also in some weird way comforted me. Maybe it's because my parents tried for 20 years to have kids and then all of a sudden had me when my mom was 42. My mom had the best tone ever because she's been there. I don't believe she's had miscarriages, but she's had infertility and the hurt with wanting to have a child but for some reason can't. Having kids isn't such an easy road for some people, and there are bumps sometimes.

    I wish you ladies all the love and comfort. It's nice to have a community that understands. Going through this is such a weird mix of emotions that I've never felt in my entire life. Hugs!!!!!!
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    I had a D&C last Thursday. I should have been almost 10 weeks but baby stopped growing around 8 weeks 1 day. Someone on Facebook told me we could just try for another one because we're young but DH had cancer as a child and IVF is our only option so no we can't just "try for another one."

    Our RE said it probably happened due to my egg.. Thanks for that. He also said it's probably better this way than having a child with a disability. (At the 8 week US we saw some type of band thing around the sac) Not comforting in the slightest.

    A day after the D&C a co-worker said I looked sad and asked if it was because of the baby. Seriously?!

    A family member told me we could always just adopt. We have thought about that but not the comforting words we needed.

    We have a 3 year old from my first marriage and we had told her about the baby right after our second beta. The hardest thing to hear after losing the baby was her asking to kiss the baby through my belly before bedtime. She doesn't know how long pregnancies take and doesn't really have the concept of time down so we are choosing to not tell her we lost her sibling. We're doing a FET in March so I should hopefully be pregnant again relatively soon but her periodic belly kisses are so painful.

    I'm basically at the stage of grief where I just hate everyone.

    thejessicanicol.com


    Me: 24 DH: 29

    MFI: Low Morphology Low Count due to radiation

    IVF with ICSI Round 1: November 2015

    D&C January 2016

    Anticipated FET April 2016

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    I had a miscarriage 2 weeks ago at 10 weeks along, and have talked about it a lot with close family and friends. 

    I keep trying to tell myself that people say hurtful things because they haven't been through it and they just don't know any better. I've certainly gotten a lot of "there is a reason..." and "because you didn't have this baby, you'll end up with the one you were meant to have."

    What really surprised me was how incredibly insensitive my mother in law has been. She had a miscarriage, so I would have expected her to remember how painful it is. The two things she keeps telling me are, "We will love you even if you never have kids" and "there's nothing shameful in adoption." While I appreciate her reassurance that she will keep loving us, that is not really my main concern right now. But of course...it's all about her. As far as adoption goes, I'm not saying we wouldn't adopt, but we would obviously have to come to terms with the idea that we cannot have biological children before we do that. She should be more sensitive to what a huge realization and decision that is, instead of just tossing it out as no big deal. 

    My husband and I have been married for 2 1/2 years, and I never heard him say a single negative thing about his mother until this miscarriage. She offends me all the time...but to offend her son, well...that's pretty serious. 
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    I also had this one said to me and it stung like to crap to this day I still can hear it after 4ys of my 1st loss

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    I had a miscarriage 4yrs today and it has been painful the  thing that hurt me the most was saying "at least you know you can get pregnant . 
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    When we were struggling to conceive (it took us 15 months between our first loss and the second BFP) my mom said she'd be a surrogate for me. And then the day that we learned that we had lost our second baby, she said it again "you know I meant what I said earlier about being a surrogate". Thanks mom, for reminding me that we might not be able to do this on our own. And for basically saying that you are better at being pregnant than me because you had 4 easy and successful pregnancies and I have now lost two. I know she said it out of love and was trying to be helpful, but wow.

    I have also had a couple of people (even one person who had three losses herself) ask me if we have thought about adoption. Again, not the right thing to say to someone who has just experienced pregnancy loss. This again is just salt in the wound - suggesting that a future pregnancy might not be successful and it might be easier to adopt.
    me 30; DH 35
    TTC since May 2014.
    Aug 2014 BFP, EDD April 22, 2015. Low progesterone, started suppositories. Loss at 5w6d.
    Nov 19, 2015 BFP at 13 dpo, EDD July 29, 2016. MMC discovered 12/29 (9+4). Natural miscarriage 1/16 (12+1).
    AMH results 0.42, 1.2; FSH 12.1, AFC 10, dx DOR. 
    RPL testing results normal. Nurse recommended progesterone suppositories in TWW.
    Clomid + trigger + TI cycle August 2016 - failed. Thin lining.
    Femara + trigger + TI cycle December 2016 - failed. Thin lining.
    Short LP (8 days).
    Acupuncture & Chinese herbs starting January 2017, lengthened LP to 10 days 

    Summer 2016 LFAF awards: 



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    Nothing at all.
    I hate when people know about my losses and say NOTHING
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    I had a customer tell me it was all my fault that I had a miscarriage. He kept telling me that. And one of my aunts told me that least you don't have a child like mine. Her child is handicap.
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    Just found out our baby died yesterday. My cousin doesn't want to talk to me because I'm "moody". (I'm not BTW but I am devastated and in shock).
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    This one is probably kind of petty and stupid, but it really stung. Today was the start of my first cycle since miscarrying. I made it through the work day even though these are the worst cramps I've ever had, apart from the miscarriage itself. I am broken and exhausted and needed a little help with dinner. I asked hubby to mix up some chicken stuff (just from a can... with seasoning...) so I didn't have to concentrate so long. He said fine and went into the kitchen. 20 minutes later I went to check and he had enough ramen made up for one person, and told me I "seemed more intent on laying in bed pretending [I'm] dying". Um, thanks. I was so proud that I made it through work, and grocery shopping. If I didn't feel like death before.... sigh. I know this has been really hard on him too, but nights like this just seem drive that wedge in deeper.
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    From a close friend who has been through a loss (we moved 2 weeks before the scan that discovered there was no longer a heartbeat):

    "it must have been the stress from the move"

    From my dad before I had my d&c:

    "I'm still believing for a miracle!"

    From multiple people:

    "at least you already have two healthy children. Be thankful!"

    I'll admit I didn't understand the sensitivity of the situation until I experienced it myself.... But the crap that comes out of people's mouths will never cease to dumbfound me. 

    Mama to two perfect little girls.
    Lucy 07-13-11
    Violet 03-13-14
    Conceived #3 since September 2015
    11-25-15 twelve week loss
    07-21-16 ten week loss
    10-03-16 5 week loss
    TTC again soon!
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    The worst so far was from a co worker "You dont seem too torn up about it" we have had 8 losses, 2 in the last 6 months along with several family deaths this past year, and I dont show emotion well. Yes I dont ball my eyes out when I talk about the children Ive never held, but that doesnt mean im not 'torn up' about it.
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    "well you are still young"
    "You'll have another baby"

    Thankfully I haven't had too many things SAID, but I still get those pity eyes. I hate it.
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    One night about a week or 2 after my D&C my husbands dad randomly made the comment "at least MY NEW baby will be beautiful". Holy F word I was livid and considered showing my crazy for a hot second. 1. Thanks for being ignorant and insensitive. Not prego so thanks for reminding me I just had surgery to remove my 9 week old child. 2. It would be MY baby, not yours in any fashion 3. Learn some boundaries quickly.   All I could muster was a death glare and "don't start." Now I wish I would have lashed out just to set him straight. That was 2 months ago. I still can't stand to be in the same room with him. Seriously, who says that? 
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     I to had a miscarrige at 11 weeks. The worst part of it all is my husband saying he doesnt ever want to try again for a baby. I understand he was upset at the time about the loss but it made me feel like i was being punished for something i had no control over.  It is still a fight when it is brought up 
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    edited March 2016
    The worst: when having an argument with MY MOM, I finally admitted very bluntly that I am not a Christian, she said "maybe that's why God hasn't given you a baby."

    She later apologized, but.... that happened.

    Me: 40, DH: 35 / Married: 2009; TTC #1: 2013

    2013 - 2015: 5 pregnancies —> 5 miscarriages

    TTCAL with RE (RPL specialist): February 2016

    2016: 3 medicated TI cycles —> 3 medicated IUI cycles: All BFN

    Donor Egg IVF Transfer: May 1, 2017

    May 11, 2017: BFP!! Beta #1: 449.1, Beta #2: 844, Beta #3: 1714

    EDD: 1/17/18, it's a GIRL!  <3 E. L. A. born 12/7/2017








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    We miscarried at 12 weeks due to trisomy 21. Someone said to me "It's a blessing in disguise, at least you won't have to raise a Down's kid now". its still a loss, I'm still devastated. I would've loved that baby unconditionally, that's being a mom. 
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    I feel like so many of these things are things that it is perfectly ok (normal even!  if you are thinking it, it is ok!) to think to yourself, but never to say to someone else.

    "At least you can get pregnant, some people never get pregnant."  After 1.5 years and 3 IUIs, DH and I were definitely relieved when we finally got the BFP, but that does not ease the pain of this loss.  We met with a new midwife group because we had been wanting to leave our OB practice since my first pre-natal appt, and the MW we met was very compassionate, but then she introduced us briefly to another MW who was all about how at least we got pregnant.  Ugh.
    About me:
    /loss mentioned/
    TTC#1 July 2014
    dx: MFI (morphology)
    IUI #1 w/Clomid + Ovidrel Sept. 2015 ~ BFN
    IUI #2 w/Clomid + Ovidrel Halloween 2015 ~ BFN
    IUI #3 w/Clomid + Ovidrel Thanksgiving 2015 ~ BFP!!
    hb 146 bpm at 7w5d
    1/28/16 ~ began to say goodbye to our beautiful baby at 11w 
    d&c, followed by cytotec
    TTCAL April 2016
    IUI #4 w/Clomid + Ovidrel Apr. 2016 ~ BFN
    IUI #5 w/Clomid + Ovidrel ~ CP
    IUI#6 w/Clomid + Ovidrel ~ BFN
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