Danielle

My workplace, how they handled my miscarriage

This is just me venting. I am not the type of person to make a scene and ask for any pity or sorrow. I am a very strong person mentally and I guess you can say physically too since I do work out until I'm about to throw up. Anyways! I don't want to disclose where I was working but I will include that I was working at a casino. This was about 5 weeks before my wedding day when I had my miscarriage at work. After about 8 weeks of my pregnancy my doctor had told me the pregnancy wasn't going well and that I was a high risk for a miscarriage so I knew/was prepared for it to happen. I kept my hopes up high though and thought the baby could pull through. Finally the news and day came when I went in to get the last ultrasound and my babies hearth beat was no longer. I was 1 day short of being 13 weeks pregnant. My doctor told me my options where to take some pills to pretty much dilate and the fetus would exit my body in 1 to 2 days. The second option was to get surgery to have them vacuum it out. The sound of going under was crazy for me so I decided to go with the pill option.