Pregnancy After Loss

You can tell me time heals all wounds all you want. You can try and tell me that the farther you get from one tragic life event to where you are now, the less it will hurt. Or you can try understanding that my reality determines where I stand with my trauma. This week was one for the books, a record-breaking emotional roller coaster, and man, am I beyond exhausted at this point, mentally, and emotionally, my brain is on fire, and I can’t seem to extinguish the flames so that I can rest. Pregnancy after miscarriage has been one of the hardest, scariest, most challenging things I have experienced. Getting pregnant again after so much loss wasn’t easy, secondary infertility lingered around, and the negative test results were just as devastating as before. The mental and emotional aspects of getting pregnant again were overwhelming; the doubts of if this was the right choice, the right time, or the right thing played like a broken record in my mind. I h...