A 50 year old only child with ailing, aging parents wonders what things might be like if the losses hadn't occurred and she was now the oldest of three. A labor and delivery floor nurse who has just learned she is pregnant is assigned to care for a woman with a fetal demise. A 25 year old woman, mother of a 5 year old, suffers a second trimester loss and becomes suicidal because she feels she's lot everyone down. In closing, it would be difficult and unfair to define, catalogue, or quantify, the emotional impact of pregnancy loss in any standardized way. The reactions to loss are as unique and special as are the people themselves.
Loss touches people in many different ways and at times for years into the future.
The child is gone, but never forgotten, and often the subject of continued fantasies about what might have been.