Sarah - yep, the ol' "natures way" comment is pretty ridiculous isn't it. I know most people didn't mean anything by it, but it certainly doesn't make your loss any less significant! Would I have loved my babies any less had there been something wrong? The answer is no!!
Becc - yes I'm totally petrified 24/7. It's sad that I feel that way. I'm naturally a very anxious person by nature, but my experiences with PG obviously don't help how I feel and I continously worry that something will go wrong. It would be nice to wake up one day and feel good IYKWIM, as opposed to just downright scared. But yes, I am somewhat excited at the same time. I can't wait to meet our little tiger and hold him in my arms. It's less than 8w now which is just around the corner!
I just wanted to add something to what you said about people avoiding talking about Georgia. A lot of people avoided the issue with us too and I too can understand that most people really don't know what to say - I mean, let's face it, it's not a situation that most of us are confronted with on a regular basis so how on earth would they really know what to say?! But I think not saying anything is really awful IYKWIM....a simple "I'm really sorry for your loss" or sending you a card to this effect is WAAAY better than nothing at all. And at least then you know that they are feeling for you IYKWIM? It makes it a little less awkward for you too because you don't feel like you need to try and avoid the issue then as they have at least mentioned it....am I making sense? LOL That's how I felt anyway. I sometimes felt like screaming at people when they avoided the issue because it felt like they couldn't accept that I had lost a BABY - a life.....just because they couldn't see it didn't mean it wasn't real.
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