received knowledge

This blog is for any of you who have ever experienced a miscarriage, but especially those men out there. Just starting this blog has been a cathartic and, now I see, necessary process for me. My wife and I have had two miscarriages (within 7 months). Know that this blog is not likely to be an upper. I intend to journal my thoughts and feelings about my own experiences relating to our miscarriages. Additionally, I am in the midst of my senior thesis on men's experiences of miscarriage, so I am also going to use this as a space to reflect on my experiences doing this research. In the world of qualitative research my experiences are dubbed "received knowledge." In my study, it will be important for me to try to identify where the knowledge that I have recieved through my experiences overlaps that of the other men in my study. Even more though, in my inner life, it is imperative that I try to identify my responses to my miscarriage experiences as well as my research so that these internal machinations don't take me over.