Journey to Healing

I've been looking for things that would help me understand miscarriage better. Why it happens. How you're supposed to feel after wards. What the signs of miscarriage are. And everything I found is scary, because it is scary to experience this. I've been getting closer to God over the last few months and especially after finding out I was pregnant I really felt a true connection to him that I haven't felt in a long time. After losing this pregnancy, I wanted to find a christian way to deal and heal from this. I couldn't find anything at first. No blogs or internet articles. But then I found a book by Elise Erikson Barrett "What was lost: A Christian Journey Through Miscarriage". I ordered this book and have read a few chapters. I already love it. At the end of the chapters it has reflection questions where you write down your experience, and also exercises to help you heal. Along with writing it all in a notebook, I'm going to blog about it. By doing this, I hope I can help other women out there who are going through this as well. And if you like what I'm writing, please go out and check this book out. If my answers are helping you that much, just think of what the book can do for you. God bless.

***After the first two chapters of the book, it asks you to reflect on how you felt when you found out you were pregnant. If it brought you closer to God, did your prayers change. The second chapter asks you to reflect on the miscarriage itself. Was it out of the blue, did you anticipate it. How did the medical professionals treat you and help you with it. Well, I think I explained all of the pretty well with my first blog. So I will leave it at that for now.*** I do hope that whoever reads this, it helps you understand that a miscarriage isn't just a loss of an embryo. It's the loss of an actual baby. That to the mother it was her child, her flesh and blood. No matter how far along in the pregnancy the miscarriage was, it is still a major loss.