It’s not a
word that I ever thought would become part of me. There are lots of other words
that I had readily accepted as part of my life: death, grief, cancer, failure,
pain. Words that fill us with dread. But miscarriage isn’t one I saw becoming
part of my landscape, part of my history. Part of me.
And it’s a
part of me that is being lost. Right now. Waves of pain crash into an emptying
void where, just three days ago, bright hopes lay. I cannot sleep and so I
write this.
Utter
hopelessness was my first reaction. I am a doer. When the doctor shook her head
and said “Oh dear” I wanted there to be something I could do. But there wasn’t,
and there isn’t and so I am losing this little life, living through this
process as nature decides and my body responds.
I am OK with
that decision. Nature has its reasons and I understand that it is for the best.
But it is a decision of such sorrow. It is a decision where light and laughter
and fun and wild times of a growing family are snatched away before you had the
chance to see them properly. It is a decision which is an aggressive attack on
me as a woman; a decision which rips out what it means to be female. I can no
longer nurture or protect that little life as I should.
And it is a
decision I have no answers to. There can be no whys because there are no answers.
Just
silence.
So we hold
hands and we savour every drop of our beautiful young son, so full of life and
love and curiosity and mayhem that being with him you can forget, just for a minute,
the dark hole of loss happening right now. We are lucky to have him. We are grateful
that he came first, before this, so that we know the possibilities when nature
is on our side.
And we wait.
We wait for the storm to pass and peace to descend. We know it will,
eventually, after the swells of sadness. And then the sun will rise over
tranquil waters and we will keep sailing forwards. Together.
Because that
is all you can do.
I have had
lots of love and support from friends and family for which I am extremely
grateful. Also, reading the information here has helped tremendously: http://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/
