Miscarriage and Infant Loss

​October is miscarriage and infant loss month. Today let us take time to remember the women and men who have lost little ones – sometimes before they got a chance to meet them.  The grief of those who have lost so very young ones often takes place silently and sometimes behind closed doors.  Those of us who have lost very young ones know that we remember them when those around us either do not know of the loss we carry or have forgotten the loss.  Today, pause and remember that we live closely with those who have lost pregnancies and very young children not long born.  If we allow ourselves a moment to feel what it might be like to anticipate, carry a child only to lose the child before or soon after birth, maybe then perhaps we can begin feel with them – even a little bit- how devastating it might feel.  If we can do this, perhaps we can in a small way understand why it might take time to even begin to heal from the loss.