Child loss and pregnancy loss are NOT the same
Can we stop pretending it's all the same? It's not. I'm so tired of seeing child loss grouped in with miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, etc. Putting us all in the same category as "bereaved parents." I say this as someone who suffered from infertility and had a missed miscarriage at 11 weeks. Yes, these were difficult things to go through and felt like the worst pain imaginable at the time. But losing a CHILD is a billion times worse than ANYTHING. I lost my 7yo daughter, my firstborn child who was the absolute light of my life. I know we're not supposed to compare grief but I'm so sick of biting my tongue whenever I see social media posts lumping all loss parents together. It dismisses the enormity of the immense, all-consuming pain and grief that I feel every second of every day. We don't need to be "all inclusive" all the time and in this case trying to include ALL loss parents in "one size fits all" grief support is doing a huge disservice to ALL of us.