It's so hard isn't it?
Not many people know about my miscarriage (well obviously you fellow Baby and Bumpers do - but you know what I mean). Those who do, like my mum and my DH's mum have been really supportive about it and have consoled me a lot. Two ladies at my work also know and they both told me that they have had miscarriages as well (one had recurrent ones and then went on to have a healthy baby). My mum also told me that three or four of her friends had miscarriages and then went on to have healthy babies - so there is a lot of hope out there in amongst the sadness.
My mum also told me something that I didn't know before. I was the first born in my family and my mum had a cyst growing in her womb when I was growing. She had to have an operation or else we both would have died. When she was coming round from the operation all she could say was, 'is my baby ok?' This was around week 17 and I could easily have come really, really early. I didn't come that early but I was still born 6 weeks premature. After me, my mum said that they had to wait a long time for my middle sister to be concieved. In fact, she thought that maybe after the cyst operation she thought that she couldn't have anymore. However, by the time she had made her doctor's appointment to discuss it, she thought she might already be pregnant! Along came my sister. She then got pregnant quite quickly with my youngest sister. So there you go! A lot of people have 'journeys' to get to their happy little bundles - even people you don't expect.
Good luck to everyone - I hope we all have happy, healthy little bundles of joy in 2008!
I feel empty.
