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Miscarriage & Loss

Learn about the signs and causes of miscarriage and get support for coping with pregnancy loss.

By sharing his family’s loss, Jason Kelce gave language to a grief many fathers carry quietly

Kelce mentioned the pregnancy loss he and his wife Kylie experienced in 2018, a moment that arrived suddenly and reshaped their world.

Parents crying and hugging after loss

How to go on after the death of your child

There are no right words for this kind of pain. There are gentle steps, small supports, and ways to carry love forward as you continue to live.

Mom sitting outside by lake holding cup of coffee and grieving

Losing a baby, the grief and how moms can cope in a healthy way

There is no right way to grieve losing a baby. Whether your loss was a miscarriage, stillbirth, or death after birth, your love is real and your grieving is valid. Practical ways to care for yourself and honor your baby.

Mom who just experienced losing her baby sits in therapy looking away from therapist and feeling depressed

7 things we wish people would stop saying after miscarriage and loss—what to say instead

Language often fails people who want to show up after their miscarriage. Here are ways to support a grieving parent, and scripts you can use to teach friends what actually helps.

Mom talking about grief

This viral grief trend is breaking moms’ hearts—‘Bury me in comfy clothes’

Approximately 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and about 1 in 175 births in the U.S. result in stillbirth.

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Germany just guaranteed miscarriage leave. Why doesn’t the U.S.?

t’s a big step forward. But it also raises a glaring question for American women: Why don’t we have anything like this in the U.S.?

Angel baby: An image of a nurse creting weighted heart pillows for moms after delivering angel babies

Nurse creates weighted heart pillows for grieving moms to take home after delivering angel babies

In a viral TikTok, @thelabornursern shared her process for creating the pillows. " Your patient just gained an angel baby 🪽 and you make sure she doesn't go home empty-handed."

Front door camera footage showing neighbors leaving things for a mom who recently had a miscarriage

‘Views from My Front Door Camera’: After miscarriage, a community’s quiet acts of love bring healing

In the video, we see family, friends, and even delivery drivers dropping off meals, flowers, and small tokens of love at her doorstep.

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An invitation to the bereaved parents club 

This is paradoxical: to love and to lose in this way. It’s unthinkable, and yet here we are.

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Navigating pregnancy loss after the loss of my mother 

I worked through the emotions of that miscarriage by telling myself that whoever that little baby was, he or she is up there baking cookies and gardening while my mom is telling them all about me.

woman holding stomach in bed

6 things I learned from my miscarriage experience

But in case you are one of the few like me that feel better knowing as much of the truth as possible, here are some things I wish I would have expected when I stopped expecting.

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