Miscarriage: Reality, grief and recovery

Miscarriage, early pregnancy loss — the terms fail to speak to all that has been carried and all that has been lost. While difficult and sensitive situations are often hard to describe, vague terms sometimes add to the difficulty of recovery.
What does help, therapists say, is an understanding of loss, a support community and engagement on physical and emotional levels.
“You’re grieving that baby,” says Laura Navarro Pickens, L.C.S.W., a Newport Beach-based therapist, &ld