For example, women are often told by their providers that during the 1st trimester their babies are only “tissue” or “the products of conception.” That is when the vast majority (80%!) of miscarriages happen. I am only one of the countless women who have been told the same thing. Many women do not know that this isn’t true and that they can, in fact, find their babies and hold them. They can cremate or bury them. They can have that closure and that memory.
I held my 8 week old’s tiny body in my hand when I miscarried only last month, and I can attest that even at that early stage, a baby most certainly does have a body. My baby had a mouth that could open wide, eyes, a nose, hands, arms, legs, a tummy, and even a tiny cord. My baby was very small, and hidden inside a sac that I also wasn’t told about (and most women aren’t told about that either!). You have to cut the sac open to find your baby.
I was also told another common lie, which is that birthing my 1st trimester baby “would be like a heavy period,” when in fact birthing a baby was just like….well…birthing a baby (only this baby was very, very small!). But if you talk about the baby as being only “tissue,” then it follows that bleeding into the toilet and flushing the contents, as if were like a period, would be the best way to deal with it.
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