Chrissy Teigen fans are sharing their heartbreaking experiences with pregnancy loss after she posted about losing her son

• Chrissy Teigen suffered a pregnancy loss after being hospitalized for extreme bleeding, she shared in a heartbreaking Instagram post Wednesday night.
• Her raw posts prompted others to share their experiences with miscarriage and stillbirth, including how they've learned to live with the grief.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are "shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about" after their pregnancy loss, the model and entrepreneur wrote on Instagram and Twitter Wednesday night.

Teigen, 34, who'd been pregnant with the couple's third child, was put on bed rest in early September and then hospitalized earlier this week for severe bleeding related to a weak placenta.

"Bags and bags" of blood transfusions "just [weren't] enough" to save the pregnancy, she wrote.

"On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out," she wrote. "But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it."

We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough. . . We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital. But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. So he will always be Jack to us. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever. . . To our Jack - I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you. . . Thank you to everyone who has been sending us positive energy, thoughts and prayers. We feel all of your love and truly appreciate you. . . We are so grateful for the life we have, for our wonderful babies Luna and Miles, for all the amazing things we’ve been able to experience. But everyday can’t be full of sunshine. On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.

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Fellow celebrities, fans, and women who've experiened similar losses responded in the comments with love, support, and personal stories of their experiences with miscarriage and stillbirth.

One Instagram user shared a poem she wrote on what would have been her son's 10th birthday.

"There's a box inside my closet; where half my heart belongs. It's filled with clothes you never wore, with lullabies and songs," it begins. "You were just around the corner, I'm a half a second late. Still trying to win a race against this unforgiving fate."

Another wrote, "Oh, momma. It hurts. I've been there. My Maya's birthday is Monday, stillborn at 21 weeks. Breathe, hug Miles and Luna, lean on your people. Sending you love and healing."

TV host and author Kelsey Nixon wrote "It's unbearable pain and feels terribly unfair. I've also been there, losing my son Leo who was born far too early thanks to a poorly functioning placenta."

She added that she's "seen countless blessings and gifts" she believes came from him, and is sure Teigen and Legend will "witness the same from your sweet Jack's short, yet meaningful life."

Another follower shared a saying — "grief is just love that has nowhere to go" that helped her understand her grief after her pregnancy loss. "Now, I have days where that love rests in my heart peacefully, and days where it still flows down my cheeks in my tears," she wrote.

One woman shared her own post on Instagram, saying last month she was supposed to be a part of a joint baby shower, but instead planned only for her friend's.

Today I saw this and knew exactly how they were feeling. I always see people saying speak out about stillborn and miscarriages, but never about pregnancy’s that HAVE end by deliberate miscarriage. There’s always such a stigma about it because it’s done by choice, a choice that’s equally as hard as what these people are going through but on top of it all you also have guilt. Today this family will have all the feels, they’ll be angry, frustrated, sad to say the least. But they’ll get through it together. Better days will come! September for us had so many mixed emotions, rather than planning a joint baby shower, I finished the month making a group for one gorgeous friends baby shower. My bestfriends who I live with reminded me everyday that you really can feel like the unluckiest person in the world when really your one of the lucky ones! ❤️#chrissyteigen #miscarriage #breakthesilence #hopeafterloss #miscarriageawareness #miscarriageat14weeks

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Another wrote she understood Teigen's pain.

"You go home with no baby but a breast full of milk. You feel the reminders of the birth. You question what did I do wrong and you ask God why," her Instagram post says. "Time does not heal the brokenness from the loss of a child time only allows you to formulate a plan on how to function with a void."

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• Chrissy Teigen suffers pregnancy loss after getting hospitalized for extreme bleeding: 'On this darkest of days, we will grieve'
• Chrissy Teigen has been hospitalized for excessive bleeding during pregnancy