The trouble with pregnancy loss.

Through all the reading I have done over the years (mostly online), I have come to notice how much of the narrative surrounding the experience of pregnancy loss is geared towards heterosexual couples (and specifically women).

I must confess that this blog and my book are also geared towards heterosexual couples (and even then, predominantly women) simply because that is what I know. I talk from my perspective. I would never want to presume to know what someone else is going through or the specific challenges they face.

All families are unique as are the journeys travelled in their creation.

Pregnancy loss is also a unique experience with no 2 people experiencing the event in the exact same way.

Pregnancy loss is not an event that is exclusive to heterosexual couples. Sadly, where there is a pregnancy, there is the potential for pregnancy loss. Pregnancy loss is an event that happens to and impacts parents within the LGBTQ+ community as much as the heterosexual community and the impact of loss on the physical and emotional wellbeing of parents within this community must not be overlooked.

I hope that not only will the narrative surrounding pregnancy loss continue to grow in general but that it includes within it, the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.