Miscarriage: The Healing Power of Sharing Your Fertility Story

Not long after my miscarriage (with Doireann), myself and my partner took a taxi in my home town.

Upon entering the taxi, the driver (a woman) asked how we were.. as is customary. I could not bring myself to slap up the expected response of ‘Good Thanks’ and instead blurted out that I had just miscarried my baby and was feeling very fragile.

This beautiful woman then shared with me her own story. She had been through IVF (almost twenty years earlier) which resulted in three miscarriages and no live birth.

I asked her if she had named her babies. She hadn’t.

I then asked her what names she would have picked.

Without a thought, she piped up ‘Jonathon’…because she was sure one was a boy and she loved that name. And her two girls were Hannah and Joy.

I felt so grateful to be sharing this time with this beautiful mother.

And I thank Doireann, Jonathon, Hannah and Joy for coming into our lives and allowing us to transcend etiquette so that strangers could heal together…in traffic… and feel deeply the love that connects us always.

In joy,

Deirdre

P.S. If you have a healing miscarriage story that you would like to share (anonymously or otherwise), please email me at Deirdre@magicalbeginningsforbaby.com