How Bad Oysters Helped Me Cope With A Miscarriage

L M du Preez
Nov 7 · 6 min read

Just after my thirty-second birthday I fell pregnant. It was my second pregnancy after a miscarriage about eight months earlier. My partner and I had planned to get pregnant both times and my nerves were shaken after the unexpected end of the first.

The miscarriage had been difficult to talk about, to reveal, especially after having jumped the 12-week recommended waiting gun…

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L M du Preez

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L.M. is an award-winning indie author from Vancouver, Canada. Find her books on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and Wattpad.

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