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17-09-2020
Column: The Mtn Midwife - PREGNANCY AND LOSS
Column: The Mtn Midwife - PREGNANCY AND LOSS
The hangover of this still exists today where many women feel that they cannot acknowledge that they have had to make difficult life choices or that they have lost a baby. Most women, at some point in their lives will experience pregnancy loss. For some people, they feel that it is a topic they cannot discuss. Sometimes this is bound in culture or upbringing.
When I started my training in the UK 14 years ago, we were taught about the recent history of pregnancy loss and how this was handled in the medical community and by society, where many women were encouraged to remain silent about their losses, no matter the gestation. Stories of women who had stillborn babies who were whisked away at birth and never allowed to be held by their grieving mothers. Some women were told to ‘forget about it’ or ‘get over it’ if they had experienced pregnancy loss in the early gestations of pregnancy. Thankfully, care for these women and conversations about pregnancy loss has improved in recent times.

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