Journaling Prompts for Secondary Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
Secondary infertility and pregnancy loss occupy a painful middle ground—there may be a child already, which the world often treats as reason enough to be grateful, while simultaneously there is genuine grief for the family that was hoped for and the life that didn't arrive. The loss is real regardless of what else exists. And the silence around it—from people who don't know what to say, or who minimize it because of what you do have—can make it a profoundly lonely experience. Writing gives you a space where the full weight of this can simply exist.
Journaling Prompts
What specifically are you grieving? Let yourself be precise—the child, the pregnancy, the family size you imagined, the loss of certainty, the version of your life you'd pictured?
What has been hardest about this experience that others around you haven't fully seen or understood? Write what you wish someone had said, or asked, or simply acknowledged.
How has this affected your relationship with your partner, if you have one? What has brought you closer and what has created distance—and have you been able to talk about either?
What do you do with hope now—do you allow it, guard against it, hold it carefully? Write honestly about your current relationship with the future of this.
What do you need right now to feel even slightly less alone in this? Is there someone you could tell something true to, or something you could do for yourself that acknowledges what you're going through?