December Book Club

I Had a Miscarriage

Welcome to our first-ever book club!

This month, we will be reading I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir A Movement, by Jessica Zucker.

Zucker truly started a movement with her hashtag: #ihadamiscarriage. The hashtag on social media helped so many pregnancy loss survivors finally have a voice.

But, I’ll be honest, shortly after my second miscarriage, I struggled to read this book. Not because it wasn’t great - quite the opposite. I struggled because it was so raw, so real. Incredibly honest. For the first time, I was reading something that made me say, “Finally! Someone who tells me what a miscarriage actually is like.” And, for the first time, I was reading someone else’s real trauma. Something that, in my own trauma, felt too hard to read.

I’m looking forward to revisiting the book this month with you all, and I hope we can all find some healing passages in this memoir.

This week, we will read the first three chapters.

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Chapter 1: “I Thought I was Out of the Woods”

Zucker has a way of bringing us immediately into her world. We are there with her, right at the start of her miscarriage.