Around one in five pregnancies end in miscarriage and yet when it happened to her,Janet Murray found herself ashamed to talk approximately it. She explains why the issue needs a bigger conversationA week after my first miscarriage, I drove 140 miles from my home in Kent in to Stratford-upon-Avon for a two-day conference. Although my heart was aching – and my body too – staying at home wasn’t an option. Women had miscarriages every day of the week, or didn’t they? I couldn’t sit at home feeling sorry for myself.
Over a gala dinner,I drank too much wine and poured my heart out to the woman to my moral – a mother of four who listened kindly and patted my arm as I struggled to hold back tears. Later on, I dropped it into conversation with a male colleague.
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Source: theguardian.com