Article: After miscarriage: Healing the hurt a family suffers

"Miscarriage is a very lonely type of grieving," said Lisa, who was a mother of three young sons when she lost a baby in 1985. "Everyone tries to be helpful by making such comments as `You can get pregnant again' or `It's a blessing, something must have been wrong with the baby.' I said similar things to women who miscarried before I realized that what I said did not help. Because there is no casket and funeral, people do not see miscarriage as a legitimate reason to grieve. It is an invisible loss, but a real and painful one nonetheless."

Lisa and her husband Jared had decided they wanted a fourth child. This time, though, Lisa had more difficulty conceiving than she had in three ...

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