Recovering From Traumatic Miscarriage

[CLongden93]

Hi all,

Firstly I am so sorry that you have ended up on this topic. Miscarriage and pregnancy loss is so heartbreaking and I 100% understand what everyone is going through. Is anyone else struggling with the psychosocial recovery after a miscarriage? I had a MMC at 12 weeks. I started miscarrying naturally at home the day after, and ended up in hospital with a large bleed as part of the pregnancy tissue was stuck on my cervix. Had it removed and was treated with meds - had an ultrasound the next day to confirm it was complete and was discharged home. I’ve just had my first period post miscarriage, and it was like a normal period but I feel traumatised by the blood from my miscarriage. Doing yoga and meditations to help. Anyone else have a similar experience and have any techniques to help? X

Oh I'm sorry to hear this and I have had a similar experience to you - my first miscarriage in December last year was also at 12 weeks and it ended up starting two days after when I found out at the scan and passed out naturally ( and very very painfully).
As well as being devastating was also physically scary and traumatising (it happened at home and an ambulance was called but wait time was 3.5hours so worst part was over before they arrived so cancelled it).
I had another miscarriage in May at 9 weeks and had a MVA procedure for that. I feel like I went a bit mad after that one and threw myself into non- stop miscarriage research. In July I had an episode where I had a couple of weeks of non stop crying and shaking.
For me what has helped has been firstly admitting I probably have some kind of post-traumatic stuff going on (which is really common after miscarriages). Ive tried a mixture of many things over the last few months - talking therapy, acupuncture, walking, swimming, dancing, crying a lot, yoga and giving myself time off trying to conceive for 6 months to connect with other bits of life..and I'm really starting to feel so much better and myself again. I'm not scared of my body anymore, but it's taken a while.

Wishing you the best with your healing ❤️