Reflecting on pregnancy loss, Rochester Mayor shares her story

October is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month.

Is coming up./// october is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month... a time to remember families who have lost children.

The grief of losing a baby is scalding.

Rochester mayor kim norton says she's been there ?*- and is opening up about her experience to kimt news 3's isabella basco who joins us live.

Katie and george... mayo clinic reports about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriages.

Mayor kim norton opened up about the loss of a baby 30 years ago.

Mayor kim norton's fourth pregnancy ended with the loss of her baby.

She'll forever remeber the prolonged pain.

"i remember for the next several months and the due date when the baby was to be born, getting congratulatio ns on the birth of your baby, things in the mail from companies who somehow find out when you were pregnant, so you revisited the pain for months and months."

Back then, norton remained quiet about her loss ?

"* but she's noticing a shift in how people are dealing with their grief.

Model chrissy teigen and her husband john legend posted on social media about the loss of their child to pregnancy complications.

"it felt like i was going through it myself internally and that isn't happening, it's happening now for people, but it's also happening externally far more than it was then."

Deborah rich is a reproductive health psychologist.

She believes sympathy and understanding are critical after such a loss.

"families just feel very protective of themselves in being judged, they anticipate being judged and they anticipate there may have been something they overlooked even though most of the time there's absolutely nothing they could have done."

For those experiencing the loss of a baby ?

"* rich has words of comfort.

"this will affect your life story but it doesn't mean norton tells me she dealt with her grief by making the decision to not norton tells me she dealt with her grief by making the decision to not end her child?*- bearing years after her loss.

The next year..

She made the goal to get pregnant and successfully carry her fourth child.

Thank you isabella.

We've compiled some local and national resources on pregnancy loss... if you're interested.