The way someone talks about your miscarriage can unravel its reality
...and now research shows just how important the right language can be
After my third miscarriage, there was paperwork: a consent form for surgery, and then another document to sign stating my wishes for what was to be done with the pregnancy tissue.
The kind doctor who’d broken the news that my pregnancy had ended – that the baby I’d thought I was having no longer had a heartbeat – warned me about the words that would be w…