If you’ve gone through fertility treatments, you know the road to pregnancy isn’t linear. So if that pregnancy ends in loss, it’s devastating. It’s not just the loss of a baby–it’s the loss of the future you worked so hard for, the belief that this time things would be different, and the fragile thread of trust you had in your body and in science.

After a miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, or other fertility loss, many parents expect that a new pregnancy will finally bring relief. Instead, it often reawakens grief. The emotional terrain of pregnancy after loss is complex, and your reactions—whatever they are—make perfect sense in the context of your prior experiences.

Miscarriage is a tragically common experience, affecting up to 1 in 5 clinically recognized pregnancies. Despite its prevalence, the emotional impact of pregnancy loss is deeply personal and often profoundly difficult to navigate.

We all process grief in different ways. For some people, the grieving process can feel like being caught up in a whirlwind of emotions, with no way to slow them down or make sense of them.

Grief is the feeling of coping with loss or change. The loss of a loved one may be the most common form of grief, but several other things could cause someone to experience feelings of grief, especially during your reproductive years. This blog post explores the different kinds of grief one can experience.

A not-often-discussed-but-incredibly-common event during one’s parenting journey is facing a termination for medical reasons (TFMR). This deeply personal decision occurs when a pregnancy must be ended due to serious medical issues affecting the fetus or the health of the birthing person.