Thank you very much to both of you for being here, for the work you're doing and for sharing the knowledge and experience you have with this committee. It's very much appreciated.
Dr. deMontigny, you brought up some interesting statistics, like the fact that one in four pregnancies ends in a miscarriage. Something we've definitely experienced in the previous hour of testimony is that grief affects everybody differently and comes in waves. This is not talked about. There's very much a stigma around this. I know this even from talking to friends of mine or family members who have lost babies. “Am I permitted to talk about the baby who didn't make it?” There's a weird stigma.
What do we need to do as a society and a culture to help destigmatize this so that once people work through their own emotional process, we can have these conversations about the loss of a child?