Pastoring a miscarriage

Natalie Brand  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 2016
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Pastoring a miscarriage

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Natalie Brand recounts her own experience of miscarriage and pleads for sensitivity in the church

The experience and grief of miscarriage suffers particularly from ignorance and misunderstanding.

Many grieving parents continue to be shocked and deeply hurt at the blithe sympathy, and even contempt, of others to their loss. Unless we have suffered a miscarriage ourselves, or walked closely with those who have, many of us have no idea of the horror and myriad pastoral implications that arise from losing an unborn child.

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