Thousands of Canadians miscarry every year. For them, Mother’s Day can be a reminder of loss [Video]

For many, Mother’s Day is about celebration — a day when the roles are reversed and children are meant to let their mothers know just how much they mean to them. 

But for the estimated one in 10 mothers who have suffered a miscarriage or lost a child, the day is often one of grief.

“There’s the moms that get to hold their baby in their arms, and the joy and the messy breakfast in bed, and all that stuff you see on cards and on posters — the symbolic, typical Mother’s Day. But for those of us who have had a loss, Mother’s Day can be very difficult,” says Nancy Slinn, coordinator of the Metro Vancouver Empty Cradle Bereaved Parents Society.

Slinn became pregnant the first time she and her husband Peter tried in 1988 and thought it would be easy to have more children. But in the years that followed, they suffered through two miscarriages, a …