
Eighteen Attempts at Writing about a Miscarriage
"I’m sure I’m not the only woman out there who has a problem with the word miscarriage. It sounds like a mistake I made: Whoopsie, I dropped the baby. I was carrying her all wrong. Forgive me. But what are the alternatives? 'I lost the baby'? How bad a mother do you have to be to misplace a baby who’s inside you?"











