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But despite how common this experience is for many parents, silence has often surrounded these losses. In an article for Psychology Today, Dr. Monica Starkman, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan’s medical school, wrote that miscarriage is “deeply connected to an individual’s sense of identity and self-esteem.”
“There’s the loss not just of the pregnancy, but of one’s hopes and dreams for that child into the future,” Starkman continued. “There’s guilt over inflicting childlessness on the one they love. There’s the feeling you’ve lost control over your life.”
Starkman advised that reducing the silence around the loss of pregnancy could help reduce the shame and depression miscarriages and stillbirths can spark.
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