Hannah Hazel
So sorry for your loss. Hope it is some little comfort that we all know the pain you are feeling and there is always someone here willing to lend a shoulder to cry on and a word of support. I recall posting about this very feeling about a month ago and I'm copying my post on here so you know you're not alone in this, and, as you say, to help other 'newcomers' be better prepared x
....we lost our precious little one on November 21st at 12 weeks and my EDD was 4th June 2011. As I said earlier in the post my first period after m/c hit me like a bolt out of the blue as I had convinced myself that I would be pregnant. Yesterday I just got my my 3rd period and it knocked me backwards almost as much as the first; not with the same shock and raw pain, but plunging me in to a pit of despair and tears with a more blunt kind of pain. The fact that I have been unsuccessful for another month is so difficult to bear and just seeing the bleeding brings back all the pain of the m/c (sorry if tmi), giving your period an even greater significance than it can ever have for those who haven't experienced m/c. I am also struggling because (this was my 3rd m/c) after my 2nd m/c I was pregnant 6 weeks later and now have a 2 year old son, I had foolishly assumed that the same would happen this time around......
Hope this helps. The pain does lessen, the disappointment is still there and it is still hard to bear but it is not all-consuming (or raw as i described it above) as in the first month after m/c if, like me, you had been convinced you'd be pregnant.
Thinking of you and praying you graduate from this forum soon xx