She Had To Pay A Shocking $1,000 For Her Miscarriage And She’s Opening Up About Other Eye-Opening Things You Probably Don’t Know Regarding Miscarriages
A woman named Kristen sent out a series of tweets in late 2021 that laid bare the painful, expensive process of experiencing a miscarriage.
“They didn’t tell me it would cost so much to lose a baby,” She wrote. “Here are other things they don’t tell you about miscarriages.”
She went on to list 14 parts of the process. First, she told readers how much it cost to have a miscarriage. “I paid over $1,000 out of pocket.”
Then, she shared that it was an ongoing event that seemed interminable. Kristen described it as “a sad, dehydrated marathon with nothing on the end but empty.”
She also shared that medical professionals aren’t always trained to provide patients with emotional support during a miscarriage. “The joy of birth is so stark when compared to the grief and loss of miscarriage,” She pointed out.
In her third tweet, she shares that a medicine used to treat ulcers, called Misoprostol, can help you through the experience.
But sometimes, practitioners assume that patients want to use it for normal pregnancy termination.
And pharmacists technically even have permission to deny you the medication since professionals consider it “off-books” management for miscarriage.
Twitter; pictured above is one of Kristen’s tweets
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“Miscarriage is so, so lonely…You really DON’T want to talk about it, but you sometimes want to scream about it. Where can we go to scream?”
She also draws attention to the “non-birthing parent” in the situation, reminding readers that their experience is also incredibly painful.
One of the devastating remnants of a pregnancy that ends after 13 weeks is the extra body weight. Unfortunately, it means that you likely still have to wear pregnancy pants for weeks after.
“No one talks about it, so you don’t know how to talk about,” Kristen shared, describing the difficulty of communicating with someone suffering unbearable pain.
“People say the wrong thing, but you’re so sad that you don’t want to say, “don’t ever say that to a person miscarrying.”
Have you ever wondered what might be the wrong thing to say to some who has miscarried? She gives examples, like “But you can try again soon, right?” and “Everything happens for a reason.”
But there will be people there to support you, maybe some medical technicians, friends, or your partner.
But she makes a final call on the situation; “It’s expensive and painful (like birth) and at the end you don’t get anything except a bill and a new playlist called, “Shit to help you get through the baby that never was.”
Kristen is courageous for sharing her experience, and other Twitter users expressed their gratitude that she started the conversation.
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