Dad's Sketch Depicting 'Very Real Loss' After Miscarriage Hits Home for Grieving Parents

— -- A Michigan father's sketch portraying the raw emotion of a miscarriage has people across the globe sharing their own stories of heartbreak.

"We had a feeling it was a girl," Curtis Wiklund of Clarkston, Michigan told ABC News. "[My wife] Jordin said, 'I love that her life has meaning. In her small amount of existence, look at what she's done. She had already comforted thousand of grieving parents around the world.'"

He added: "I cant think of anything more special. Her life didn't just disappear and wasn't not talked about, which is often what happens with miscarriages."

Wiklund, 28, a dad of two, drew an image of himself and his wife Jordin, following the devastating news that the couple had lost their baby at 9 weeks.

"When we [found out] we miscarried, we immediately went into the car," Wiklund recalled. "We've experienced sad things on our own, but never a mutual grief that we were sharing a heaviness over."

Upon returning home from the doctor, Wiklund said he felt compelled to record the event in his journal.

"I couldn't figure out how to word it," he said. "I kept trying to describe it, or write it. It was frustrating, so I said, "OK, I'll sketch it. By the time I was done, I had exhausted all my tears. I saw it was more accurate than anything I could've ever written."

Wiklund's drawing showed the touching image of him and his wife embracing one another in their car.

Soon after, Wiklund shared the sketch onto his Instagram and Facebook. Thousands of people quickly began sharing their own stories of miscarrying.

"It reminds me of when my husband and I left the hospital with no baby," one person wrote. "The heartbreak is terrible but staying strong together in your marriage will get you (and us) through."

"Thank you for this!" another wrote. "A few months ago my husband and I were in our car crying over the loss of our first pregnancy. This picture is a comfort, and it helps us to find strength from others who have experienced what we have."

Wiklund said he and his wife were surprised by the responses.

"Some [stories] were personal messages to me and some were in comments," Wiklund said. "I showed Jordin and she said, 'Wow, people are really opening up.'

"I noticed it was almost like a relief," he added. "It was like, 'We can talk about this. Now we can share this.' I think it was healing for people to express and acknowledge their own hurt and not hide behind it. It's easy to have miscarriages perceived that way. It's easy to dismiss them because you haven't had the baby yet, but it's a very real loss. That baby was already a part of our family as soon as we found out we were pregnant. I did talk to Jordin's stomach a lot [because] at one time, we did have a baby."

See more of Wiklund's sketches on his website, here.