Sharon Gaffka's reveals heartbreaking reaction to miscarriage as she felt she'd 'failed'
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Sharon Gaffka has heartbreakingly revealed she felt like a "failure" after suffering a miscarriage. Just six months after appearing on ITV's Love Island, Sharon, now 29, started to display symptoms of a miscarriage while out walking her dog, close to her parents home in Oxfordshire. Initially, the former civil servant felt felt sharp "shooting pains" in her abdomen before noticing that she had started bleeding.
Concerned, she contacted her GP after the pain and sickness became too much for her and was advised to go straight to the hospital. Upon arrival, Sharon was sent to the gynaecology department and was sat in a waiting room surrounded by women who had recently given birth to their newborns.
This, she says, added to her "trauma" while suffering her loss. During her time at the hospital, Sharon's bleeding became so severe that nursing staff gave her a nappy to wear in a bid to absorb the bleeding. But due to her work as a freelance content creator, Sharon took her laptop with her and continue to work throughout the painful ordeal.
In a new interview, she has bravely recalled the memories of the incident after a blood test confirmed she was no longer pregnant – all while attempting to continue with a spreadsheet. At the time, Sharon was advised to take painkillers and to rest up to help alleviate the pain.
Speaking of the traumatic day, she told MailOnline: "I felt very mixed emotions. In a way, I felt a bit of a relief because I hadn't planned to be pregnant. But I also felt such sadness, shame and guilt. Society says a woman's purpose is to be able to reproduce and I thought, 'Am I a failure as a woman, because I can't do this one thing?'".
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