They don’t tell you that the moment you find out, you convince yourself that the ultrasound tech and doctor are wrong and they could find the heartbeat again if they tried hard enough.

They don’t tell you that you might not be able to call your husband to tell him what happened, because speaking the words would make it way too real.

They don’t tell you that you will likely go over every single decision you made during your pregnancy to try and figure out what you did wrong to cause this.

They don’t tell you that it will take a long time to believe everyone who said you didn’t do anything to cause this.

They don’t tell you that people will constantly ask you if you’re going to try again and that someone may even say, “but you ended it on such a bad note, so are you sure…