One in Five: My Miscarriage Story

Image by Courtney Young.

It was a busy Friday and it called for all the Friday things. Grocery store. Pick up my son. Come home. Start dinner. As I merrily ticked those off my to-do list for the day, I took for granted that the life budding inside of me was handling its version of a to-do list too: grabbing nutrients from my body and coagulating itself into a fetus that would one day become a tiny, lovable human. I believed that with the same careless…