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“You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman says in a TikTok video while cradling a lifelike doll — known as a reborn doll — that has the chubby cheeks and sparse, blonde hair of a newborn. Another woman, Christina Keeler, who is married with two daughters, has a social media channel called “The Reborn Family,” with 38,000 subscribers. She gets thousands of views for videos in which she takes out the dolls in public outings. "I was never able to talk about our pregnancy loss until I found reborns," Keeler, who...

There is still a stigma in our culture about pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Here are three reasons not to keep it a secret.Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, revealed last week in a New York Times opinion article that she suffered a miscarriage last summer. Recently, supermodel Chrissy Teigen was also open about her grief over her pregnancy loss. While there is still a tendency in our culture to conceal pregnancy losses, I applaud the willingness of these well-known women to share their stories, and hope that their examples will help mothers and families in the same situation to be...