heavyheart- I suggest you grab a bottle of wine and sit and talk with you hubby about your Milly... beautiful name too. I am not one to talk about things and I gathar you do not either. That is why we have BNB but sometimes when I open to my DH he surprises me... to know your hubby has a picture of the scan in his wallet is beautiful!!
After opening up to my hubby once he broke down with me and it was a hugh turning point for us... it made us closer and i realized he felt too!
I have been in the same situation as well where I was left alone no nurses around and while bleeding very badly what i think was the baby came out in the paper tissue in my hand... end of story the baby ended up flushed or what was left of it... I was 15 weeks and the baby died previous to this so there was not any visible baby.
I agonized over this for ever... then I went to a specialist and found out that my scans before my d/c and all of this hapening did not show any form of a baby left therefore I must have lost the baby even earlier than i was told as the sac fills with blood and deteriorates the little beggnings inside. Sadly this made me feel better. Maybe i was wrong and what was in my hand was a hugh clot not my little angel. Either way i will never know and i will never have the answers.. i know a baby at 15 weeks ( i was told pregnancy stopped at 14 weeks) would not have been a tiny person to hold and say goodbye to but to know that what was there could/may have gone down the toilet is awful.
Hope it helps to not be alone. I was not as far along as you but it still hurts to be dismissed without thought or care in mind.
yeah thats something i will do, i have wanted to for a long time. She is often mentioned but i have just never told him that i would like to openley name her i think more for not wanting him to hurt anymore than he already does. He holds alot of guilt of not being able to "be there" and i made the mistake of throwing it in his face not long after. I lecctured him in a fit of upset and despair that he had no idea what i went through physicaly and told him all the details, i still remember the horror on his face. Its because of that and that its been too painful. I did get counceling for 4mths a year after and it did help to a point he also had seperate sessions which was good but for some reason i still rather not directly talk to him about it even though we face everything together and are so so close. Maybe it has a part to play that he is my rock and always appears strong and protects me and that was the only time i saw him fall apart and didnt know how to get us through and i cant bare to open that back up for him.
It may not be straight away but i will tell him one day because i know thats the right thing to do i just need to feel a bit stronger first. Thank you for your kind words and it has meant alot being able to share it on here ive never had this kind of outlet before. xx