The reality of early pregnancy loss that most people aren't talking about

The reality of early pregnancy loss that most people aren't talking about. We were not expecting this. We felt really, really lucky and really surprised in the best way. And I had started kind of spotting. This can happen, but it started to escalate. I took another test as soon as I got home and the lines were getting more and more faint. So what that turned out to be was a chemical pregnancy, which from my understanding, is basically a very early miscarriage. It did not feel or look like a regular period. I mean, I was really, really heavily bleeding for a bit of time. And that was really difficult. I'm not going to lie. It kind of took away the naivety and joy of a positive test. When I saw that positive test, I went immediately ten months forward and was like, oh, we'll definitely have a baby. After that, I realized that it's obviously not a guarantee, especially in those first couple of weeks, like the miscarriage risk is way higher. It made me more aware of the possibilities. I was certainly naive. This is my first time. We embraced it so happily and then it was ripped away and that was that was really hard.