The Miswording of Miscarriage

There are a lot of words we use in everyday conversation without thinking too much about their meaning. Miscarriage was one of those words for me -- that is, until I had one.

As a writer, I am often prone to linger on words, to get stuck on them, gently obsessing about their origins, implications, impact. Maybe because of this, I spent a good part of the week following an early miscarriage feeling incredibly wounded by the word.

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