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SILENT sadness

In the honest words of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex: ‘I knew as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.’

At the end of 2020, Meghan wrote a public letter titled ‘The Losses We Share’ for the New York Times opening up about her experience with miscarriage.

Losing a child means carrying an unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,’ Meghan wrote.

According to the charity Tommy’s, miscarriage affects one in four pregnancies.

So many women are part of this club that nobody really wants to be a member of.

And yet, despite how common it is, people find

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