Silence

I walked into my twelve week check up feeling excited and very motherly. The appointment was my initial checkup where I needed to provide all medical background. At four weeks I had experienced bleeding and was put on restrictions; however at seven weeks all restrictions were lifted and my doctor told me that she considered me to be having a normal pregnancy. I heard my baby's (very strong) heartbeat  only 5 weeks earlier and could not wait to hear it again.  The only problem was all I heard was silence. I had miscarried and did not know, I still felt pregnant and my body still thought I was. Two weeks later I had a D&C to remove the fetus and my world was soon full of silence everywhere I went.

Objective

I created this blog for my college class as a final project on subcultures. I chose my experience of miscarrying for my project in order to be in control of the emotional pain that I was left with. Those who have suffered from miscarriage are bound to one another as a subculture.

One may ask how miscarriage can create a subculture, according to Merriam-Webster (2013) a subculture is define as "an ethnic, regional, economic, or social group exhibiting characteristic patterns of behavior sufficient to distinguish it from others within an embracing culture or society".  A community of women who share the same beliefs, ideologies, emotions, and pain after losing their baby.

Therefore I would say that women who have had a miscarriage are a subculture. For this project I wanted to look at the community created by miscarriage subculture created by an alternate media of blogging/forums. A community of women who share the same beliefs, ideologies, emotions, and pain.