Australian model Megan Gale opens up about how her miscarriage has impacted her current pregnancy

MODEL mum Megan Gale has opened up in a raw interview about how her miscarriage has impacted her current pregnancy.

Megan Gale is expecting her second baby this year, and has opened up about how a miscarriage has impacted her current pregnancy.

MODEL mum Megan Gale has opened up about how the agony of losing a baby last year has impacted her current pregnancy.

Gale, who had a miscarriage in May 2016, opened up about her experience in January in a brave bid to help other women deal with losing a baby.

But today, the 41-year-old has gone in to further detail about how having a miscarriage at eight weeks has impacted her current pregnancy.

Megan Gale says she has her heart in her throat before every pregnancy scan.

Speaking to Monty Dimond on Show and Tell, Gale explained how her current pregnancy had been more “daunting” than with her firstborn son, River.

“Last year having gone through a miscarriage, that was pretty obviously upsetting,” she said.

“So going in to this pregnancy, even when we were trying it’s just so daunting.

“With River I didn’t even really think about anything going wrong ... I knew that ... anyone can miscarriage, it’s hugely common. But my mind didn’t go there that much.

“Whereas this time it’s been ‘Is it growing enough?’ before every scan it was ‘Am I going to see ... is the heartbeat going to be there?’ ...‘Am I going to get bad news again?’

‘It’s just an underlying little worry there that I wish wasn’t there’.

Gale, who has a three-year-old son with her partner AFL player Shaun Hampson, explained that every pregnancy scan starts off with nerves and her heart in her throat.

“Every time I had a scan and got the all clear ... OK I have to wait another two weeks,” she said.

“Stress is the worst thing I can do for myself and for my body.

“I really tried to put it all aside and so it’s been a very different pregnancy in that regard.

“Even now I’m still ... almost at that point where I’m nearly in the second trimester and it should all be happy days ... it’s just an underlying little worry there that I wish wasn’t there.

“But I think it’s natural after going through something like that.”

Megan Gale and partner Shaun Hampson, who have a three-year-old son together, are expecting their second child later this year. Picture Rebecca Michael.

Gale opened up about her loss in January to Instyle Magazine, hoping her experience would ease the stigma around talking about miscarriages.

During the interview, Gale revealed how she knew in her bones something wasn’t right with her unborn baby.

“I went into the scan and the obstetrician moved the ultrasound around my belly,” she said.

“At one point he just stopped and said he was sorry but the baby was gone.”

Gale said she felt frustrated when people quizzed her or others on pregnancy plans, especially following her miscarriage — explaining “the last thing” she wanted to do was talk about conception.

“I’d just gone through this procedure ... and the news of learning this little bub had not made it,” she told Dimond.

“The last thing I wanted to do was talk about conception or pregnancy.

“But I wasn’t in the space where I could go ‘actually I just had a miscarriage two days ago’ because you know what that’s going to do to that person who has asked the question.

“It’s just not great.”

The last thing I wanted to do was talk about conception or pregnancy. Supplied by InStyle Magazine.

“It’s such a private intimate part of your life deciding that you’re going to create another human with your partner that it really is no ones business,” she said.

“I would never ask someone ‘when are you going to have a baby’ or ‘when is the next one coming’ um ‘why haven’t you had a baby?’

“People do it so often now, I think it’s just such a common thing to ask. People don’t think there could be underlying issues going on.

“You do put a lot of pressure on someone when you ask that question because there may be a reason why they don’t want to answer it.”