Understanding miscarriages
Updated Dec 13, 2020, 3:25 pm IST
Despite the staggering commonality of emotional and mental pain that miscarriage causes, the issue remains stigmatised.
Actress Kajol had opened up about going through multiple miscarriages in the middle of her busy career
When Meghan Markle recently wrote in a Western-media publication on her miscarriage, her statements resonated with many women who’d undergone similar trauma but hadn’t opened up about facing it. That was not only because Meghan was “Royalty” speaking on this sensitive topic, but also because she was a mother, speaking about an early pregnancy loss.
In her article, Meghan had written, “I think the awareness of the mental trauma of the miscarriage is not openly addressed in the society as most of the times, particularly in early pregnancy losses where there are no obvious physical pregnancy changes seen on the mother. Often a woman tends to blame herself for the miscarriage. That guilt feeling of not being able to safeguard a new unborn life gives rise to a feeling of failure as motherhood and shame. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”