Abby Howard Says Her Experience Having a Miscarriage Was &x27;Eerily Similar&x27; to Live Birth Hannah SacksWed, June 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM UTC 0 Abby HowardCredit: The Squeeze/Youtube Abby Howard shared details about her miscarriage at 17 weeks during an appearance on The Squeeze podcast She described the experience of delivering her baby as emotionally challenging and similar to a live birth Abby and her husband Matt announced the loss of their baby girl in a heartfelt Instagram post last September Abby Howard is sharing more about the loss of her third baby.
Abby Howard Says Her Experience Having a Miscarriage Was 'Eerily Similar' to Live Birth
Hannah SacksWed, June 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM UTC
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Abby HowardCredit: The Squeeze/Youtube -
Abby Howard shared details about her miscarriage at 17 weeks during an appearance on The Squeeze podcast
She described the experience of delivering her baby as emotionally challenging and similar to a live birth
Abby and her husband Matt announced the loss of their baby girl in a heartfelt Instagram post last September
Abby Howard is sharing more about the loss of her third baby.
The influencer, who is currently pregnant with her fourth baby, appeared on The Squeeze podcast on Wednesday, June 10, and spoke with co-hosts Tay Lautner and Taylor Lautner about her experience having a miscarriage in September.
Abby began by saying that everything about her third pregnancy felt "perfect" and that she felt great.
"Everything was textbook. I had gone through [pregnancy] twice before, and everything was very similar," she said. "And then I went to my 17-week appointment and actually brought my whole, like, both of our sons went and Matt was there."
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Abby said it was a "fluke" that her entire family was with her that day since her doctor's appointments had become pretty routine. But it was lucky they were there, since Abby went on to hear some devastating news.
"The nurse couldn't find the baby's heartbeat at 17 weeks. And the doctor came in, and she couldn't find it either," she recalled. "And she was like, 'Sometimes babies do this, like, this might be the positioning thing. We're just gonna take you in for an ultrasound really quick.' They take me in, and we can see our baby is just really still, and there's no cardiac activity at all."
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At that point, the ultrasound tech turned to Abby and told her that she didn't have good news.
"And I think in that moment, it's like really hard to describe that feeling. Even now, I just feel like I couldn't feel the weight of what had just happened and what she was telling me," Abby said.
"I had heard a lot of conversation about what early miscarriage looks like," she continued. "I had no frame of reference for what it looked like at this point."
Abby had to return to the hospital the next day to start the process of induction so she could have the miscarriage.
"And I always say that delivering our daughter was just...it was so eerily similar to, like, a live birth. You're in the same unit as everyone else that's having babies that are alive," she recalled. "They have like an incubator across from you that you just know that you're not gonna use."
"There's no fetal monitoring of any kind. It's just an experience that you wouldn't wish on anyone," Howard continued. "But it is an experience that has grown me like so, so much."
The Howards — who are parents to sons Griffin, 3, and August, 2 — initially announced the pregnancy loss in a joint Instagram post on Sept. 27, writing, "It is with very heavy hearts that we share about the loss of our baby girl born far too soon."
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