For Cara Roan, the grief of miscarriage is compounded by the pain of burying the wrong baby’s remains. “I’m so broken from this,” the Maskwacis woman said Monday.
Roan is a mother already, and knew something wasn’t right when she began spotting a few weeks ago during her fourth month of gestation.
At the end of January she went to the Wetaskiwin Hospital and Care Centre, located just down the road from the central Alberta First Nations community where she lives.
Roan said she said she waited for several hours, was seen by staff and told to return if the bleeding got heavier. Read more: Quiet grief: Albertans open up about stigma and suffering after pregnancy loss Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists The next day, she said it got worse so she returned to the hospital and once again, waited for hours before being told the same thing. “They told me the same thing: when you feel a gush, come back. “So the third night, I went in because it was getting worse and I started feeling pain — started feeling labour pains and the bleeding got worse.” On that third day, Jan.