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When you have a miscarriage and want to say it on your terms

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Jill Atogwe
Apr 18, 2025
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I’m currently writing this in a room full of my family in a house on Santa Rosa Beach. For the first time in a long time, I really don’t know what to say. When I shared about my chemical pregnancy, I had never experienced it before. I didn’t know the heartache, the loneliness, the seemingly unwinnable battle against the “what ifs.”

This, though, I have done before.

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