For those of us who have passed it, we know that it is a very difficult time, of uncertainty and fear in the face of the possibility of being a mother someday. You are waiting for a baby, you feel happy, and suddenly, without wanting it or waiting for it, you have lost it. It is a pain that is usually minimized or made invisible, but many couples suffer: it is believed that one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage.
For give visibility and support to all women who have suffered a miscarriage, the photographer Razo Nikita, who has also lost a baby at 12 weeks gestation, decided to gather a few women for a beautiful photo session holding white balloons, representing the number of babies they have lost.
The pain of many women
When a woman becomes pregnant, not only changes occur physically, but also emotionally. The illusion is awakened before the arrival of a child (be it the first or not), one begins to think about what the new life will be like with the arrival of the baby and even if it is very soon, one begins to love that new being that Start growing inside.
Suddenly, from one day to the next and without understanding very well why (most abortions do not have a precise cause), your son is no longer. All the illusion and your plans fade away. Guilt, anger, fear, shame and frustration are some of the feelings that arise at that time.
Losing a child that is gestating is devastating for a couple, and more especially for women, who also suffers in their own flesh. It becomes more difficult when the environment denies pain, minimizes it, tries to console you by saying some of those things that you should never tell a woman who has suffered an abortion, or worse, stop talking to you because they no longer understand your pain.
"You are not alone"
This is the message Razo Nikita wanted to convey through his photographs, that women know who are not alone in the face of gestational or neonatal loss. When he lost his baby, who would be his second child, he felt shattered. The following year came his third son, a rainbow baby.
After his experience, he decided to launch the "One in four" project, since it is the proportion of pregnancies that do not prosper. "It is a club in which none of us would like to be, a club that not many people talk about, but that nevertheless has many members, one in four," explains Razo.
It is even believed that the percentage is even higher (there is talk of fifty percent) since many abortions occur when the woman still does not know she has become pregnant.
For all those babies that have not been born and to give support to all the women who have gone through the loss of a child, the project "One in four" wants to let them know through these significant images that they are not alone. It is a duel that every woman must live in her own way, and although it is painful, the vast majority of women who have had a miscarriage have become pregnant again.
