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Psychological distress is common among women who experience pregnancy loss. Might social media play a role in supporting such women? In this cross-sectional qualitative analysis, researchers examined 200 texts, photos, hashtags, and emojis describing personal experiences of miscarriage using #ihadamiscarriage, an Instagram hashtag established by a clinical psychologist.
Medical and physical experiences included vivid descriptions and photos of health care facility visits, testing, and ultrasounds, and descriptions of learning about indicators of fetal demise, including the burden of awaiting results. Social experiences most commonly referenced sharing the experience of miscarriage on Instagram as an attempt to seek support (and to offer it t…