Seeking opinions on a Miscarriage Community

[Med Help]

Hi,

We've had several requests to create a community regarding miscarriages and to help give support when one happens. We wanted to see how everyone felt before creating it, since right now most of this conversation takes place in the Pregnancy communities. Let us know and thanks.

MedHelp

[Mumita]

It would be great to have the miscarriage forum if the pregnant ladies that have gone through this would sign up for it too to encourage the women that have gone through the m/c.  I just don't see people wanting to look back at a m/c when they're having a good pregnancy, not to be superstitious but I'm sure some people just want to move on and not think about it because it is sad and painful experience.
I think that we are all big girls here and we can talk about the good and bad and very ugly of pregnancy as we've done before with great discussions that we've had.  
Plus the m/c forum seems like the sad and depressing forum.  I kinda preffer the quirky pregnant forum at least it doesn't remind me so much of my loss, it makes me think of it more as part of being female and the things we go through.

[MrsGordon524]

I love the idea. I have suffered through 4 miscarriages and each time my world collapsed and I felt that I had no where to turn.

[JoyRenee]

Mumita, I often visit miscarriage forums to share my story of becoming pregnant after my miscarriage. If people actively made a point to go in there to encourage other women, that'd be a good idea. What do you think?

[Cheesecake7]

I think it would be nice.  When going through my miscarriages I really wanted to talk to people going through the same thing.  Posting on a pregnancy forum was depressing for me at that time. Plus, I felt like I was bothering the pregnant people with my bad news.  I think having the separate forum would be nice, then if you want to post there you can. You still have the option to post on the pregnancy forum if you feel more comfortable there. Its not much different than posting a question about fertility on the fertiltiy forum, or you can post it here....  It gives those going through it the option.

I see it as a speciality forum. For example, we have forums for each month of due dates, "Jan 09," "Feb 09," etc.  and we still have the larger pregnancy forum. Why is creating a speciality miscarriage forum any different from this?  I think it is a wonderful idea.

[Mumita]

For some reason I have mixed feeligns about this.  I wish I was pregnant more than anything and that I didn't experience a miscarriage however I'd like to learn from those that had the experience and now are pregnant. A forum just for miscarriages seems kinda alienating specially when the one's that have had miscarriages and are now pregnant probably wouldn't go there, since thinking about miscarriage is the last thing you want/should do.
I think that talk about miscarriages belongs in the pregnancy forum at the same time, I wouldn't want to make the pregnant ladies feel bad about being pregnant when others can't.  Its the same as a ttc forum.
There's been posts of miscarraiges for a long time, why now separate?

[PENNY1705]

i think its a great idea.i had 2 m/c and i would love to talk to other women about the same experiences and thoughts.