5 Ways to Help Someone Cope with a Miscarriage

The five of us walked into the small room with a long cushioned table and a monitor on the wall, smiles on our faces and voices filled with expectation.

As I situated myself on the table, we all stared at the screen, waiting and eagerly watching.

But our expectations were only met with silence; our eagerness suddenly replaced with worry. Not recognizing any of the images on the screen, I finally voiced the question that kept circling my mind.

“Is everything okay?”

The ultrasound technician sitting to my right was only permitted to say, “You’ll know more after your images have been read.” But as my eyes searched the screen for answers, I finally saw something that looked familiar. A sac, only it was empty.

Fear instantly took hold of my heart and I frantically tried to hold myself together while my three children looked on just waiting, not suspecting a thing. My eyes met my husband’s, and as his hand found mine, we said everything we were feeling in that moment without exchanging a word.

The technician excused herself to get my check-up room ready for our appointment with my midwife while my husband quickly walked the kids to the waiting area and hurried back to me.

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