'Dawson's Creek' star James Van Der Beek opens up about his wife's 3 miscarriages

James Van Der Beek has shared a heartfelt note about his experience with miscarriages.

Two days ago, his wife Kimberly Brook revealed that she suffered three miscarriages in "almost 8.5 years of pregnancy."

"I've had five babies and three miscarriages in that time," she shared on Instagram.

Now, Van Der Beek has spoken about the painful process of grieving a lost child.

"It will tear you open like nothing else," he wrote in a post on social media, captioning a photo of his two-month-old daughter. "It's painful and it's heartbreaking on levels deeper than you may have ever experienced. So don't judge your grief, or try to rationalize your way around it."

"Let it flow in the waves in which it comes, and allow it it's rightful space. And then... once you're able... try to recognize the beauty in how you put yourself back together differently than you were before."

The 41-year-old Dawson's Creek star also explained why he'd like to find a new word in place of 'miscarriage'.

"'Mis-carriage', in an insidious way, suggests fault for the mother - as if she dropped something, or failed to 'carry,'" he added. "From what I've learned, in all but the most obvious, extreme cases, it has nothing to do with anything the mother did or didn't do. So let's wipe all blame off the table."

Two months ago, Van Der Beek and Brook welcomed their fifth child and fourth daughter: Gwendolyn.

The couple, who have been married since 2010, are also parents to Olivia, 7,  Joshua, 6, Annabel Leah, 4, and Emilia, 2.