Miscarriage in Sarah Palin's Book
I had pre-ordered my copy of "Going Rogue" about one month ago, and it came in the mail yesterday.
I liked Sarah Palin a lot before, but I am finding myselfappreciating her even more after reading her book. I greatly admire her love for life, her huge love for America, her inspirational words, and the fact that she is so REAL.
This book is really long (413 pages) so I have a long way to go- I'm still in the first chapter.
One thing that stood out to me yesterday as I was reading, was on pages 54-55 of the book, Sarah describes her experience with miscarriage. (It happened after Track was born and before Bristol was born.)
Sarah's experience mirrored my own miscarriage experience (and the experiences of many other women i've talked to over the years) in many ways. She described how she had desired another baby so much... the excitement of knowing she had conceived again....and the bonding that she and her husband, Todd, had experienced with the baby during her early pregnancy.
She mentioned that on the way to her monthly exam, Todd had left a love note for her that said, "I love you, Tad" (Tad was the name they had given their unborn baby).
She described the moment when during the ultrasound, the doctor heard no heartbeat and said bluntly, "There's nothing alive in there", and then told her the different ways she could get rid of "it".
Sarah wrote about this, "It was my first taste of close personal tragedy, the kind that rocks are latively untested faith.....A miscarriage is often dismissed as something a woman needs to shake off quickly, but it's impossible to explain the devastation and loss unless you've experienced it."
I liked Sarah Palin a lot before, but I am finding myselfappreciating her even more after reading her book. I greatly admire her love for life, her huge love for America, her inspirational words, and the fact that she is so REAL.
This book is really long (413 pages) so I have a long way to go- I'm still in the first chapter.
One thing that stood out to me yesterday as I was reading, was on pages 54-55 of the book, Sarah describes her experience with miscarriage. (It happened after Track was born and before Bristol was born.)
Sarah's experience mirrored my own miscarriage experience (and the experiences of many other women i've talked to over the years) in many ways. She described how she had desired another baby so much... the excitement of knowing she had conceived again....and the bonding that she and her husband, Todd, had experienced with the baby during her early pregnancy.
She mentioned that on the way to her monthly exam, Todd had left a love note for her that said, "I love you, Tad" (Tad was the name they had given their unborn baby).
She described the moment when during the ultrasound, the doctor heard no heartbeat and said bluntly, "There's nothing alive in there", and then told her the different ways she could get rid of "it".
Sarah wrote about this, "It was my first taste of close personal tragedy, the kind that rocks are latively untested faith.....A miscarriage is often dismissed as something a woman needs to shake off quickly, but it's impossible to explain the devastation and loss unless you've experienced it."
Thank you for your blog. Now I appreciate Palin even more.
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Amen. It's such a hard thing b/c people don't seem to understand that you just lost all the hopes and dreams you had for a BABY not a pregnancy. Or even worse, a "product of conception"...I lost our first baby after we tried for 4 1/2 years to conceive-and yet, I didn't feel as if I had the "right" to grieve that baby in that sense. I felt like people thought I should shake it off. I heard countless thoughtless words from well-meaning people. "One day you'll have more kids than you know what to do with" "something must've been wrong with the baby-it wouldn't have been healthy" and "at least it was early"...Now, when someone I know loses a baby I say "I'm so sorry" and leave it at that. It's the saddest thing-to lose a child, whether that child is barely conceived or 10 or 40...it's not a pain we're meant to endure.
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Thank you for your Blog it is helping me so much right now through my own Journey.
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This is really interesting - I respect her all the more now. I linked to it on my weekly roundup - post is under my name. I've really enjoyed hearing about your meeting her and Mike Huckabee, too. Thanks, and happy Thanksgiving!
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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