http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/ If you have suffered a loss, we hope you can use these forum as a means of support to help you through. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:27:04 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/images/bellybelly2/misc/rss.jpg http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/ http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116920-my-heart-still-broken.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:17:42 GMT Many of you would know I suffered a m/c @ 8 weeks for my first pregnancy. It was an early loss as they term it and I was very lucky to fall preg again with Bella the cycle after my loss. I was exstatic with being preg with Bella and I think I just locked the loss away and tried to focus on my preg.

It has always been in the back of my head and in my heart but I never allowed myself to really deal with it. I "delt" with it at the time and I greived a bit but then I fell preg again and I just pushed it to the side.

I was watching Neighbours tonight and they had a memorial for Libbys baby (I know its TV, I know) and it just hit me like a head balloon...

I feel that my heart has broken all over again.. I think I need to do something to honor my little on and maybe deal with the emotion that I have not..

I love Bella with all my heart and soul and I am ever so greatfull for her... so how do I honour my angel bub and not dishonour my earthside bub??

Sorry Im a bit of a mess and Im unsure as to why it has all come to the surface now.

Maybe also as DH and I have been speaking about TTC again and I am so scared that Ill suffer another loss..

Sorry for the ramble.. Now I need tissues..

Kate xox ]]> Jakabella http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116920-my-heart-still-broken.html http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116815-how-do-i-find-strength.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:02:51 GMT Hello everyone,

Hubby and I are trying for our first baby. I found out 2 weeks ago i was preg and over the last week what started as spotting has turned into bleeding like a normal period so guess i've lost this one at six weeks. Lost our 1st preg at 9 weeks. We have only just started on our TTC journey and i'm already finding it soul destroying. I am totally crushed. How on earth do you feel ok? I feel like noone understands how i feel. Comments like it wasn't meant to be and you can try again later just don't help me to feel any better. I wanted this baby and i wanted the last one. I guess i just want to know how you've found the strength to go through it again and again? I'm really scared :( ]]> Babyluv http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116815-how-do-i-find-strength.html http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116763-2-year-anniversary.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:54:35 GMT Its been a really long time since I posted. Today is the two year anniversary that my beautiful boy Anthony was born too soon. I miss him sooo much and know that I am a totally different person now. I am sitting here i my bed next to my 2nd son Andrew I can't help but think of what my life would have been like if Anthony was with me. I love my ANdrew. He is perfect even though he doesn't always sleep through the night. I remember how much belly belly helped me. i thought today I would post and thank everyone here. I will never forget Anthony and never forget what this site did for me.

Barbara ]]> Anthonysmom http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116763-2-year-anniversary.html http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116607-say-prayer-family-who-have-lost-their-baby.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:31:23 GMT Hi Everyone,

Last night my husband informed me that family friends of his parents had lost their baby boy. My husband grew up with this family. Their baby boy was a surprise baby but very much cherished and his arrival was anticipated by the whole family, especailly his older teenage sisters.

Unfortunately there were complications during the birth and he didn't get enough oxygen. He fought for 3 days but passed on Monday.

Today, I am deeply saddened and my heart goes out to the mum who I shared knowing glances with in church whilst we were both pregnant. Please say a prayer for this family and their angel boy. ]]> BekZ http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/116607-say-prayer-family-who-have-lost-their-baby.html http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/115590-why-wont-he-acknowledge.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:39:11 GMT I need help... I am sorry this is such a mammoth "me" post but this is eating me up and I just need to get the whole story out.

My DH is refusing to acknowledge our miscarriage and it is killing me...

A bit of background. I am 30, my DH is 52. We started our first IVF in March, and got a BFP first round but unfortunately I miscarried at 5 weeks.

My DH refused to believe anything happened, and as such was telling our family & friends that nothing happened, that the IVF just didn't work. He even went as far as to tell his son that the embryo just disintegrated without implanting, which was totally untrue, and seeing that the whole IVF cycle he barely knew what was going on, I don't even know where he came up with this story (he is not a very educated man).

I need him to acknowledge what happened. I had done an early POAS and got a positive result at 3.5 weeks, and then the official BT at 4 weeks, and then a follow up BT the next week at which point they said there were problems and I was miscarrying and would probably begin to bleed in the next couple of days. Although I was only knowingly pregnant for a week and a half, and it was still only very early days, I wanted that baby so badly and was so happy to get a positive result that it was just crushing when it came to an end. I'm sure you know what I mean.

The next day, I began bleeding at about 3am and went out to him in the kitchen in tears(he usualy leaves for work around that time). He got angry and told me to shut up and go back to bed cause the last thing he needed at 3am on a work day was me "being hysterical over nothing". He would get angry at me every time I got upset and tell me I had no right to be upset because nothingwas there, nothing had really happened.

When I blew up at him about it his justification was that because it was not yet technically a foetus then nothing was really there. It hurts becasue for a week and a half I knew I was pregnant, I was happy and excited and looking forward to what may come and I need him to acknowledge my right to grieve and he refused. So I basically gave in and shut up about it, only cried when he wasn't around and pretty much dealt with the whole thing alone. None of our friends or his family ever came to see me or offered any support becasue they believed him that nothing happened, and now I find out I've been branded a liar by them over it. How could anyone lie about such a situation? It was the most excruciating pain I have ever felt, both physically and emotionally and I just couldn't fathom anyone wanting to feel that way under false pretences.

Being that he is older, DH has 2 adult sons, both of whom have partners. The younger son was one of the people he told that "nothing happened". I later explained the whole story to them, including that DH wasn't accepting it and was saying nothing happened, and thought it was all sorted. The older son wasn't speaking to us at the time, but when DH called him just out of courtesy to let him know what had happened, he got out the words "she had a miscarriage" but then the phone dropped out and he never called them back to clarify. Recently I found out that they instead tried to clarify it with the younger son, only to be told by them that I made up the whole thing and nothing had ever really happened. It just makes the whole situation worse, not only did I have to deal with it all on my own, but now everyone looks at me like some horrible creature that would make up such a story.

Finally when we got our current BFP and we got to the same point where I had miscarried, and he read the developmental milestones, and then the next week we had an ultrasound, he finally "admitted" that yes something had happened. And agreed that the people that he had told nothing had happened would be told the full truth. And I thought he had done this. Apparently he never did.

Now today he finds out that the younger son's partner is 6 weeks pregnant (also an IVF baby) and he says to me that he really hopes she makes it through cause it was bad enough when the IVF didn't work for us first go, but to be told she was pregnant and then lose her baby would be devastating and he would hate to see anyone have to go through that...

I don't know what to do, he's gone out and I have been crying for the last hour. I feel physically sick. I don't know what to do or say, I can't just let it go, he'll know I'm upset when he gets home and want to know why and when I tell him he will only blow up at me again.

If you've made it this far, thank you for being patient & reading my terribly long post, I just really had nowhere else to turn. ]]> BOC http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/miscarriage-stillbirth-loss-child/115590-why-wont-he-acknowledge.html