The excitement of pregnancy can quickly be replace with grief when you experience a miscarriage.
Here's an honest look at how to cope from a mom who's had 5 miscarriage, and 2 rainbow babies.
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How to Cope
- Find someone to talk to.
- Give yourself permission to let your emotions out.
- Unfollow instagram influencers who share a lot about baby/pregnancy stuff.
- Break something
1.Find someone to talk to
Whether it's a close friend, sister, or even your mom, but find someone to talk to. No one should have to bear the grief by themselves.
You will also be surprised at how many around you have had miscarriages too, not that it makes you feel better, but at least you won't feel alone.
2. Give yourself permission to let your emotions out
When you feel like crying, cry. When you feel like getting angry, get angry.
An important part of grief recovery is to go through all the emotions.
3. Unfollow instagram influencers who share a lot about baby/pregnancy stuff
I'd recommend this for the first month at least of your miscarriage. While the cute baby photos are usually fun, to a mom who just lost her baby or had a miscarriage, it's like a knife in the gut.
4. Break something
This goes back to the emotions, but one way to really let your anger out is to break something.
There's something rather therapeutic to breaking something when you are angry with grief.
Just make sure it's something that can be easily replaced.
5 Stages of Grief
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
With any grief, these stages come and go in different order. It's important to let yourself go through each one of these stages after your miscarriage.
Once you've found acceptance and feel like you have recovered from your miscarriage, then and only then should you think about trying for another baby.
Hang in there mama!
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