By Lysanne Sizoo, Author of Small Sparks of Life Lysanne Sizoo is a freelance journalist, writer and counselor. In this exclusive article for ParentNet, Lysanne writes of the difficulties in dealing with miscarriage and offers her heartfelt perspective on how she was able to move on.
Any miscarriage is a loss, often seemingly unacknowledged by the outside world.
I was just over thirteen weeks pregnant when I suffered my first miscarriage. My second was an ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo implants outside the womb. I then had a fraught but successful pregnancy, which led to the birth of our son Karl, now almost eight years old. After Karl we had a few more disappointments, until I came to accept that despite having many other talents, childbearing isn't one of them. I have learned to accept that Nature has her own timetable, and that there are certain things I can't change.