James Van Der Beek is opening up about his wife Kimberly’s devastating miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancy. James wrote on social media that "after suffering a brutal, very public miscarriage last November," they learned that Kimberly was pregnant again.
He explained: "This time, we kept the news to ourselves," adding that last weekend "once again…the soul we’d been excited to welcome into the world had lessons for our family that did not include joining us in a living physical body."
James continued, saying they rushed Kimberly "for another harrowing night of blood transfusions." He added that while trying to be by his wife's side "something kept running through my head, again and again, which I now feel compelled to share: We’ve got to take better care of each other."
He continued: "There are no words to ease that pain… to make the process hurt less or to solve it quickly. But the way out of it? Starts with an open, broken-hearted contemplation of this question: How can we take better care of each other?"
He concluded by letting "all the families who have gone through this" know that they are not alone.
James and Kimberly share five children: Olivia, 9, Joshua, 8, Annabel, 6, Emilia, 4 and Gwendolyn, 1.