Ectopic pregnancy is a unique and uniquely painful kind of pregnancy loss.

In addition to the struggles and grief you experience as someone mourning a pregnancy, you may be facing additional anxieties and burdens, such as:

• Fears about how this may affect your future fertility

• Processing finding out you were pregnant during a rupture

• Processing an unexpected or emergency surgery

• Dealing with the physical and emotional effects of Methotrexate injection

• The grief of still being, and feeling, pregnant

• Fear of needing a second Methotrexate injection or a surgery, after all

• Feeling “stuck” as you monitor HCG and wait to be cleared

• Guilt or fear over whatever form of management you were forced to choose

• Struggling with seeing ectopic pregnancy in the news

• A compassionate person to walk alongside you during this time of transition

As a perinatal chaplain, I am here to support you and help you navigate these unique challenges and the spiritual questions and struggles they bring to the surface.

As with pastoral care sessions for miscarriage, these pastoral care sessions take the form of a private, confidential 60-minute virtual meeting. You can meet with me for a single session or recurrently on an as-needed basis. If your ectopic pregnancy is being managed via Methotrexate or expectant management, you may prefer to meet recurrently for the duration of the pregnancy.