Comedian Katherine Ryan says miscarriage made her feel 'shameful’, as she calls for pupils to be taught about the issue in schools
She had been 10 weeks pregnant.
The performer found out about her pregnancy loss earlier this year during a routine scan, and said:"I'm 36, I thought I was very well-versed on women's issues. I genuinely didn't know that a miscarriage can happen in this way."She is in a civil partnership with her childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra, and has a daughter, Violet, from a previous relationship., she explained what happened.
Ryan's body continued to carry the embryo, and she explained:"Basically my mind knew I had lost the baby, my body just would not recognise it had lost this baby. "People recover and they don't mention it again, they start to forget the hardest part, but right now I haven't forgotten yet. It was so grim and I felt like a bad mom, I couldn't get it out - 'maybe this little soul is scared and doesn't want to be alone'."
Whitmore said this echoed her own miscarriage in 2018, adding:"It's crazy you said that, because I've never told you this, but I remember in my situation about two years ago when we went for our scan, it was supposed to be the first proper scan, and there was no heartbeat."I think for the doctors it happens so much that they're quite used to it, I didn't realise the figures until afterwards.
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