Needless to say, for me, motherhood has always been a sore subject. But recently, I’ve learned pregnancy loss is more like an open wound. Experiencing that changed a lot for me. It’s an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it’s picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people’s joy. This makes it difficult to be honest about your pain; you feel like a monster making other people’s pregnancy announcements, baby showers, gender reveals, and sonograms about you. The thing is, on most days, it’s fine, it will scab.
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