A devastated mum, who ended up in emergency after suffering a miscarriage, has revealed her husband’s hurtful response to the loss, which happened on his birthday.
The 26-year-old mum-of-one was exactly eight-weeks pregnant when she lost her much ‘wished for’ baby, on her husband’s 27th birthday.
“Yesterday, I was 8 weeks pregnant,” she explained. “The day before yesterday we saw a beautiful heart beat flicking on the screen and today I’m devastated.
“I was playing with our two-year-old when I felt a pressure in my lower abdomen. Not long later, I noticed bleeding and I let my husband know immediately that I had discomfort and bleeding. Before long I had passed what I believe is the foetus and I messaged him: ‘I think I lost the baby’.
“I wanted to keep him updated and I guess I was seeking some kind of emotional support. I asked if he could come home and he said, ‘of course, if it’s urgent’. I said I think it is because the pain and bleeding is getting worse and I’m starting to feel lightheaded and our two-year-old is unattended in his playroom right now. We have no friends or family near that I could call who would get to us quicker than he could.”
The heartbroken mum says she cleaned herself up, crawled downstairs to take some pain medication, made her toddler some lunch and put him down for a nap.
“At this point my husband still isn’t home. He was working approximately 30 mins away and took closer to 60 mins to get back. Hours later when I asked, it was because he’d stopped to pick up some beers.”
Eventually the mum ended up in emergency after losing lots of blood, vomiting and feeling lightheaded. By the time she was discharged it was 8pm.
On the drive home from hospital, her husband reminded her that she’d promised to make him his favourite dinner for his birthday.
“I said I wasn’t feeling up to it and that whatever takeaway he wants is on me. He said ‘for f*ck sake’ under his breath and then muttered something along the lines of, ‘this bullshit has ruined my birthday’. He didn’t stop to get any takeaway. He just drove straight home.
“He put our son to bed and I went to bed and I’m not sure what he did after. I didn’t see him this morning as he had already left for work. He’s not messaged me all day and he got home a few hours ago (it’s now 8.40pm) and he’s been giving me silent treatment. I tried to speak to him about an hour or so ago and he ignored me and I called him a disgrace.
“He slammed the bedroom door and locked me out of the bedroom. His mum has since messaged me and said I need to be patient as he’s also had a loss. She didn’t ask how I was or anything. He’s obviously speaking to his mum but why isn’t he opening up and speaking to me? She said I was harsh?”
The mum says she feels completely emotionally neglected.
“My body has been through emotional and physical hell. I understand that my miscarriage came at a f*cking inconvenient time for him as it was his birthday and all. I’m not sure if it’s the hormones making me feel crazy but is it nuts to contemplate divorce? Am I the asshole for calling him a disgrace?”
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