After Lost Pregnancies, Meghan Markle and Chrissy Teigen Urge People to Share Their Pain

Let’s collectively acknowledge that for many, conceiving and getting pregnant is a lot harder than we all thought when we were young and first learning about pregnancy and how to avoid it. As we become adults and want to get pregnant, many couples experience pain including infertility, loss, and emotional trauma. Often times couples, especially women feel ashamed and keep this pain to themselves.

As of recently, we’ve seen brave women such as Meghan Markle and Chrissy Teigen share the devastating news of pregnancy loss. By sharing their devastating news, they gave a gift to the world by talking openly about pregnancy and baby loss, as well as emotional pain and grief in general. Their authenticity and vulnerability lets people know it’s okay to feel pain, share it and get help for it

These women spoke the unspeakable. Most people do not talk about miscarriage or baby loss - it’s something families usually keep quiet and hidden like a secret. It’s an event that even stirs shame for some, even though it happens through nobody’s fault.

Losing a pregnancy—a baby—is hard! Losing someone you love is hard, even if you have not yet seen that person come into the world. Society brings food and sends cards when you lose someone who has lived outside the womb—yet what do we do when someone loses a baby not yet born?

Read more about this topic and why it’s so important to openly discuss this topic and break the stigma around pregnancy loss or infidelity by reading the full article here.