I have suffered 2 miscarriages between 8-10 weeks of pregnancy, one in 2009 and one in 2012. I'm now 6 weeks pregnant again.
I sing and lead worship at my local church and on both previous occasions I have been on the rota to lead on the weekend I ended up in hospital miscarrying. Of course someone stepped into the breach but I felt I let everyone down in addition to being devastated about losing the babies.
I'm due to lead on Mothering Sunday, bang in the middle of what seems to be my risk period. We have a new music director and I think he'll think I'm barking if I either say I don't want to do it or that he needs to have a backup prepared.
I know I'm probably not very rational about it, but it is an unfortunate coincedence that history is repeating itself in this way. At the moment nobody except DH knows I'm pregnant again.
I can't get my head round the miscarriages wrt faith at all. From a 'nature' point of view of course I understand it's common and a way to prevent a baby with abnormalities being born. From a 'unique individual created by God' POV it makes no sense. I hope I learned some lessons from my experience, I can't see what possible good can come out of going through it repeatedly. I have prayed for every child I have ever carried (I also have 2 lovely children) and when I have had threatened miscarriages many people have prayed with or for me. It made no difference to the outcome.
I'm swinging wildly between telling everyone and asking them to pray, to just carrying on and not saying anything.
Can anyone offer any wisdom?
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Can any Christians give me some guidance? (re miscarriage)
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Bakingtins · 18/02/2013 13:51
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