A Georgia woman was overtaken by emotion as she pleaded to doctors about having separate waiting rooms for miscarriages and expecting parents.
India Batson, 29, who lost two children back to back, admitted it “absolutely sucks” when having to see other pregnant women in the waiting room.
“I would like to make a recommendation to OBGYN offices to have a different waiting area if you are there for a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, a ruptured ectopic pregnancy,” she said in a TikTok on March 15.
“If you’re there for a loss I’d like for there to be a separate waiting room than the regular waiting room,” she continued. “Because sitting in that waiting room, next to tons of pregnant women, while you wait to go back just to get bloodwork to see if their HCG is back to zero, sucks. Like it absolutely sucks.”
A teary-eyed Batson then took a short pause before venting to viewers about how difficult it was during her recovery stages.
Batson also explained how frustrating it is to return to the same place — that twice informed her of her miscarriage — for bloodwork to check her HCG (Human chorionic gonadotropin) levels.
Miscarriages are the loss of a woman’s pregnancy before the 20th week, the Mayo Clinic said.
For pregnant women in the US — an estimated 26% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to a report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
“Moreover, 80% of early pregnancy loss occurs in the first trimester. The risk of miscarriage decreases after 12 weeks gestation,” the report added.
Batson recalled when she had a “rush of emotions” when finding out her two children no longer had a heartbeat — triggering her trauma on both devastating days.
“Golly, Preganacy is hard,” she said right before the video, which had over 2.8 million views, ended.
Viewers jumped to the comment section to express their support for Batson’s take, sharing similar experiences in waiting rooms.
“Sitting there when a couple walks out smiling with ultrasound pictures was like a punch in the gut,” a viewer said.
“As a very pregnant woman I support this so much. At one of my last appointments, there was this sweet girl there who was crying her eyes out and it wasn’t fair that I was there in front of her,????” a commenter empathized.
“THIS. And a separate exit route. I had a missed miscarriage. I had to walk through the waiting room sobbing after learning of our loss! I just put my head down and tried not to make eye contact,” another supportive commenter wrote.
