It is no secret that I have been taking my miscarriage hard. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Max. I guess I never really thought it would happen to me. I made one healthy baby with almost no effort on my part, why should another be in any way difficult?
I have been sleeping a lot. I have been yelling a lot. Mostly at Jason, because Violet is my beautiful baby, what if she is the only one I ever have, I cannot stand to see her sad, don’t make me discipline her! In fact, about the only time during the day I come close to happiness is the time between getting home from work and putting her to bed. She is the only thing that can make me laugh.
Everything is hard. I have put on make-up once this week, which is unheard of in my world. The last 10 years, I have not left the house without at least eyeliner. There is a pile of clean clothes on my bedroom floor that I lackadaisically sort through to find something, anything to wear as I drag myself through the day.
But I didn’t notice. Maybe I chose not to notice. A lot of women have miscarriages, and they can totally handle it, right? They can manage to get through their life without falling apart and bawling twice a day and having panic seize your chest because, look, there is a pirate and I wanted to decorate Max’s room with pirates, or, hey, this sounds like JLo and didn’t she just have a son named Max, and hey, it is Thursday, and I would be 13 weeks along now, and here come the tears.
But my lovely Jason pointed out that, hey, dude, I already had a chemical imbalance. I am still a victim of Post Partum Depression, and y’know what? This JUST MIGHT be affecting that.
And, gracious, lady, my body just went through a pregnancy. Albeit a short and unsatisfying pregnancy, but one nonetheless. And there are all these hormones flying around my system that need some help to get back to normal. That there are some physical side effects that go along with this grief of losing a child that I never even got to kiss.
I spoke to my doctor and upped my dosage of antidepressants. Sure, this is not the direction I hoped to be going a year after starting them, but by golly, I sure can focus a lot better.
It still hurts. I am still crying as I write this. But it is getting a little easier.
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- Rebecca is Fabulous
- Rebecca is mama to the three loveliest girls in the world: Violet Lynn, Carli Jay, and River Fay. She is also a wife to Jason, king of men, who is thisclose to recieving mechanics master's certification. She is currently smack dab in the middle of a college education that she hopes will only take eight years. And in her downtime, she cleans, cooks, sews, plays with make-up, reads, and drives her beloved Jeep, Xena Warrior Princess the Car, all over Owensboro, from daycares to elementary schools to colleges to grocery stores to Target to...
2 comments:
I'm sorry you're going through this. And don't be hard on yourself about the antidepressants. No matter how high the dose they won't take away the pain, just the imbalance and depression. The pain will last...but he is a part of you so that makes sense. Luckily, it won't always be so raw--but for now, take good care of yourself.
Hugs!
He is your child. It's that simple. Never having held him doesn't make it any less true, and it seems incredibly unfair that the world doesn't simply stop to allow a mother to grieve her child until she's ready to resume daily life again.
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