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They had been trying to get pregnant for two years. «For as long as this placenta has remained stuck in me, it has felt as though I was stuck in the trauma of my labor and postpartum,» Herron continued. «At times I have felt comforted knowing an actual piece of Oliver was still with me, and at other times I have felt guilty for wanting it gone.
For wanting to 'move on.'» Herron also reflected on how her physical symptoms continue to affect her emotional state. My due date will arrive soon – on May 17th – yet my body will have only just completed this agonizing process of letting go," she wrote. «I have spoken about how postpartum after pregnancy loss is still postpartum, and that biology makes no exceptions.
But in addition to the intense hormone drop and body changes experienced with a full-term pregnancy, when you lose your pregnancy, you also have to navigate the insurmountable grief of not bringing your baby home.
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