People have asked, “Do you only have the one child?” The question sometimes leaves me feeling as though I’m in some way lacking, like I didn’t finish the job. I’ve even occasionally heard the comment, “So, she’s an only child”, which makes me think of the negative implication attached to being an “only child.” Fred and I wanted to have more children, but sometimes we don’t get everything we want in life. I have been pregnant four times. Three of those pregnancies ended in miscarriages. This isn’t something I talk about and not something people ask about. It’s generally understood to be one of those topics we all avoid. Discussing miscarriage makes people uncomfortable. The pain of losing these unborn children has lessened over time. It sits in the back of my heart, the pain just a smaller shadow of what it once was. When our heartbreaking losses were still fresh, I wondered when, or if, the pain would ever go away. It hasn’t left completely, at least not so far. It is a
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