But 25% of women lose a pregnancy - and it remains a very difficult and taboo subject. But you know, I'm okay.' I couldn't pretend like that anymore."Įach year, more than 200,000 New Yorkers give birth and most of those little ones come into the world without complication. "I just knew for a fact in my heart that I could not go on like I did with the first one," Emily said. "I (sigh) just kinda looked at my husband and, like, I don't know how we can do this again. That's all I wanted to see was that fluttering on the sonogram screen and it wasn't there," she said. "We went in for our 14-week sonogram and I was just looking for that fluttering. I definitely went into a major depression."īut she kept her depression private, "just kind of put on a happy face and tried to continue living life."Įmily became pregnant again, made it past that ominous 13-week period and everything seemed great once again - until the next week. "You don't really know what it's like until you go through it personally. I just had to keep it to myself," she said. "I did feel pressure that I should just get over it, that I wasn't allowed to grieve outwardly.
Up until that moment, it hadn't occurred to Emily something like that could happen to her. We went in for our 13-week sonogram and there just wasn't a heartbeat anymore," Emily said.
"In 2013, my husband and I were pregnant with our third child.
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