The technical definition for miscarriage is when an embryo or fetus perishes before is exceeds the 20th week pregnancy. According to research around 10 -25% of pregnancies result in a miscarriage. (PPFA, 2019; Staff, 2019). However, miscarriages like suicide have long been part of the "unspoken" issues which plague our communities, as though it were an illness which spread when it was spoken about.
Within society, even in the Xhosa communities, it was almost disgraceful for a woman to be unable to conceive and give birth to a healthy child. Due to lack of available information, women ended up being made to feel as though they were failures when found to be barren, as though she somehow failed at doing the one thing that her body was designed for. A real woman ought to be able to bring forth life, isn't she?
As seen in figure 1, the female anatomy unlike that of a man, is designed to conceive, carry and give birth to life (Brichford, 2016).
Within society, even in the Xhosa communities, it was almost disgraceful for a woman to be unable to conceive and give birth to a healthy child. Due to lack of available information, women ended up being made to feel as though they were failures when found to be barren, as though she somehow failed at doing the one thing that her body was designed for. A real woman ought to be able to bring forth life, isn't she?
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| Figure 1 Connie Brichford (2016) Female Anatomy. [ONLINE] |
As seen in figure 1, the female anatomy unlike that of a man, is designed to conceive, carry and give birth to life (Brichford, 2016).
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