Allison Roy of Hampton knows what it’s like to broach the subject of miscarriage.
Since 2020, she has had four miscarriages.
“With pregnancy loss, it’s a special kind of grief in the sense that you’re grieving emotionally, but you also have your body, [which] is clearly going through a traumatic event,” Roy said.
“At the beginning, you’re just like in survival mode … and then when the grieving process really starts, it can be really isolating.”
Roy had three ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg implants outside the main cavity of the uterus, most commonly in a fallopian tube. Ectopic pregnancies are non-viable and can be life-threatening.
Roy then tried an assisted reproductive technique where eggs and sperm are combined in a lab to create an embryo called in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
But that ended in an early miscarriage for Roy, marking her fourth pregnancy loss.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 15 to 25 per cent of pregnancies end in a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy occurs in one to two per cent of diagnosed pregnancies.
Roy said she remembers going back to work only a few days after a surgery to remove an ectopic pregnancy, and a pharmacist told her that it was normal for her to need extra rest. (Bader Ben Amara/Radio-Canada)
Roy said that after her third loss, she had just started a new job and felt guilty asking for time off.
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