Wife of Geelong star Gary Rohan has opened up about her heartbreaking miscarriage experience: ‘You never think it’s going to happen to you’

Madi Rohan, the wife of Geelong Premier Gary Rohan, has spoken candidly about her devastating experience of miscarriage as the couple look to welcome their first child together.

The couple announced in August that they were expecting their first child, whom they introduced on Instagram as their “rainbow baby.”

On Monday, Rohan explained that she had suffered a “missed miscarriage,” which occurs when a fetus is no longer alive but the body still thinks it is pregnant.

“I had what they call a missed miscarriage,” Rohan told the newspaper Missta Mums podcast.

‘My body was still going through 100 percent of the pregnancy and growth, the hormones were going up and doing everything they were supposed to do, but my body hadn’t registered that I had lost the baby.

Rohan explained that she had suffered a ‘missed miscarriage’

“I continued to grow and still had all my symptoms.”

Rohan explained that she then had to wait two weeks to be sure she had miscarried.

“The two-week wait for that second scan had literally driven me crazy,” she said.

‘Wait any longer, I couldn’t hack it.

‘I started to get quite frustrated with my body – what are you hanging on to, why do I still feel pregnant? If we lost the baby, what’s going on? Then why is my body failing me? It’s like my body missed the miscarriage.

“The math I did… I counted every hour to figure it out. What the correct dates and weeks would have been. I was googling every ultrasound and what it looks like at each week point.

‘I just had to get through those two weeks. You don’t want to give up hope and when someone gives you that little spark, you don’t give up.

‘We would never give up. The two weeks were torture just thinking about all the possible ‘what if’ questions.

Rohan says she felt like her body was failing her during the heartbreaking situation

Madi and Cats star Gary Rohan married in December last year

‘I hadn’t bled and nothing had changed. They said they could confirm that nothing had continued to grow and there was absolutely no heartbeat, that we had lost the baby and there was no ray of hope left.”

Rohan revealed that she had no idea this experience was so common and wasn’t sure if she would share the news with others.

“It was almost like I had to keep it a secret because it doesn’t exist,” she said.

‘Not that I felt alone, because I certainly had support, but I felt like a minority. I felt different. One in four hear it, it’s so common, but you never really think it will happen to you. You know it’s a risk, you never really think it will happen to you.

“I think my emotional response told me what my gut said. It’s something you can’t understand unless you’ve experienced it. You hear the stories and you definitely sympathize with others who are going through it, but it hit me like a ton of bricks.

“My heart broke in that moment, especially because I know there must have been women around me who went through this and I didn’t know and I wasn’t there to support them.”

‘It’s such a taboo subject. Before this pregnancy, I had a miscarriage myself and felt like nothing was there. There was nothing I could resonate with, nothing I could even remotely understand about the process and how common it is.

‘You’re not alone: ​​one in four pregnancies ends in a miscarriage.’

Gary Rohan, who already shares two daughters with ex-wife Amie, lost a daughter named Willow, who died shortly after birth.

Rohan and ex-wife Amie were high school sweethearts who were married for four years before splitting in 2020.

The footy star went public with Geelong physio Madi in 2021, and the happy couple officially married in December 2022.