title: The Paradox of Time Post-Pregnancy Loss: Three Things Not to Say When Communicating Social Support.
abstract: In this essay, I interrogate the role time plays in the three most common social support messages I received post-pregnancy loss. In doing so, I illustrate how our most common "social support" responses to pregnancy loss, while uttered from caring, intentional places of support, can actually serve to marginalize and invalidate experiences of pregnancy loss.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , Christopher Newport University.
authors.forename: Michaela D E
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000523:psychology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012944:Social Support; D013997:Time Factors