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Posted: 11 December 2006 at 9:31pm |
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Lately Ive been thinking heaps about the twins i miscarried, maybe having Addison brought up the memories or something but when i think about it I think of them as babies, even though they never developed past the egg stage and i m/c in the first trimester so is it weird that i think of them as my babies.
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 11 December 2006 at 9:36pm |
I don't think it is weird at all! I think it is a lovely way to remember them. 
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Posted: 11 December 2006 at 9:59pm |
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I hope i don't offend anyone with this. i;'ve never had a miscarriage so am not sure of the feelings and emotions, but maybe you miss what could have been, as in your images of what they would grow up to ,and what you wuld do and stuff like that. does that make sense? once again, never been through this myself so probably talking through my butt again.,
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Posted: 11 December 2006 at 10:00pm |
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I miscarried at just 4 weeks, so it was like getting AF a day late... but it was definitely not an AF. But I still think of that baby, somehow I think of her as a girl as well, and wonder why I m/c and what would have happened if I didn't. I don't think your feelings are weird at all.
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Posted: 11 December 2006 at 10:50pm |
I didn't tell anyone at the time but I had one a couple of months ago, it was really early on too, 5 weeks..(I did have nausea though really early on, and incredibly sensitive bb's..which didn't go away until 2 weeks after I m/c.. )only found out and then 2 days later got what I thought was late implantation bleeding but the next day was full on AF type bleeding but with clots.. got a postive test otherwise I might not have known.. DP was in Sydney at the time so I didn't have anyone to talk to..
But yeah I can understand what you're saying, even though I only had a few days I was already getting used the idea, only to m/c once I'd got my head around it.. I was an emotional mess when the preg hormones left my body, it was really overwhelming 
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 6:19am |
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It's not weird at all, I miscarried six years ago and every now and then I still think of our little bubba. Lizzle you are right it does remind you of what could or should have been. Jayden started school the other week and that was a reminder that I should have three there and I missed that.
Even though you were pregnant for a short time you still lost a baby and have a right to miss them and grieve. Meow so sorry you had to go through that alone that must have been hard!!
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 7:51am |
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Oh crap... Kat! You came around that weekend too didn't you?!?!?! I'm so sorry!!!
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 9:48am |
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I'm the same 2 years ago I m/c at 9 weeks and I'm always thinking about our bubba, was it gonna be a boy or girl, what would he/she have looked like.
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 3:02pm |
I never M/c..so I have no idea how you are feeling....but I can only imagine. When I bled with Zaara, each time I thought I was loosing her...I was going mad...I was sooo paranoid!!
I think it is normal for you to think of them as babies....and may be when you see Emma's two...you think that this could have been you...I dont know...tell me to shut up if I am talking crap!!! 
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 7:21pm |
 meow wrote:
I was an emotional mess when the preg hormones left my body, it was really overwhelming |
Oh yes the "baby blues". That and the clots are how I knew for sure that I had m/c as I hadn't done a test (and found out too late that you can still test up to a week or so after the m/c). Fortunately I had already had a baby and knew what the blues were... by the next day.
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 9:02pm |
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I don't think it's at all weird to have those thoughts and feelings. Grief's a funny thing (not funny-ha-ha, but y'know what I mean) and it takes its own sweet time, too.
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Posted: 12 December 2006 at 9:08pm |
...dunno if you want to hear this or not, but a guy at the church that I go to (correction - the church I've attended occasionally in recent times!) talked to everyone once about an amazing experience he'd had - something happened, and his spirit or soul (hey I dunno how it works!) went to heaven and 'met' 2 children they'd lost... said they were the happiest children ever, playing, and they'd spent however many years it'd been since they'd arrived there living without any pain or worry, always surrounded by love, security and happiness. He was told that it wasn't yet time for them to know who he was (their daddy), but that that time would come. Totally up to you what you want to make of that and I'm not saying that you should believe it or not, but for me, I believe it.
edited to add: Hope I wasn't getting all preachy there! If you don't agree that what I wrote was OK, then please just give my post the big finger and ignore it. I haven't experienced a miscarriage, so if I've really put my foot in it, then sorry about that. If not, then yay!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 8:40am |
Andie, I think that's a lovely way of remembering a child that has past away. I believe that "it" is a child from the moment of conception, so regardless how many weeks pregnant you are you have still lost a child and however you choose to remember them and deal with your grief is a very personal thing. I can't imagine it would be any difference if the child was born or unborn and passed away, it would hurt just as much.
I've never had to deal with this but my heart goes out to all that have 
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 10:46am |
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Thanks guys, Im relieved you dont all think its weird. I just felt a little silly. Funny but I always think of them as girls aswell!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 11:38am |
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I agree Toni, it's a baby from the time of conception and that's why there are grief process (different from person to person) after a m/c. I think a lot of people who haven't had kids don't always think that way and maybe that's why it can seem weird Robyn.
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 2:43pm |
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I had a miscarriage before having Josiah, and Nat and I suspect that all the bleeding with Josiah was actually a m/c of his twin. For reasons I've never understood, I have always thought of the first m/c as being a boy, and if the bleeding with Josiah was a m/c, then I think it was a girl. I don't think its weird to think of them as babies, it helps somehow.
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 8:50pm |
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I don't think it's weird at all. A few weeks after our m/c I had a dream where I 'saw' our baby, she told me she was ok and that her name was Te Anahera Pono. I didn't actually 'see' her face in a physical sense, but I woke up with the feeling that I was able to let her go. And funnily enough it must have been around the same time I conceived the twins.
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:12am |
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Wow.... makes me all goosebumpy, Emma!
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:13am |
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I don't think it is weird at all, i too m/c earlier this year at 9 weeks - had just gotten use to the idea we were finally pregnant when it happened. I am starting to find it hard at the moment to cope with as i would have been due in a couple of weeks, in fact a lady at work is due the same time as me and has just left for maternity leave. Anyway, maybe we might conceive again as Emma did, while thinking of the one that didn't make it.
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:23am |
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My sister in law was due 2 days after me, that was really hard watching her be pregnant and have her baby, trying not to think it should be me. Guess that was karma coming to bite me on the butt though, when i was pregnant with Kobe i was due 4 days after my sister and she lost her baby at 10 weeks like i did so she had to watch me go on and have Kobe
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