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Happy Mother’s Day to the Forgotten Moms!
1 in 8 women suffer infertility. 1 in 4 women suffer a miscarriage or infant loss. These women are still mothers, and I want you to know you aren’t forgotten.
Continue ReadingFrom Pregnancy Disaster To Newborn Wonder
“Do you know what day this is?” Dr. Hasan asked me as I held my newborn son. He stood by my bed looking at both of us with an odd expression. He and I had been through a lot together, but I’d never seen that expression before. I wasn’t sure what he was asking. “My […]
Continue ReadingWhat Is And What Might Have Been
I am very lucky. I have a smart, beautiful, hilarious child, and I am enjoying every minute that I get to spend with her. But life hasn’t always been so easy and full to the brim with joy. Before there was Vivienne, there were others who I never got the chance to meet, and a […]
Continue ReadingWhat Not to Say
For those of us who have miscarried, we have all had to go through our own grieving processes. Usually part of that grieving process requires us to untell all of the people that we excitedly shared our pregnancy news with early on. Since pregnancy loss is such a taboo subject, most people don’t know how […]
Continue ReadingLosing an Unborn Baby, Losing Confidence
When I got pregnant the first time, I was thrilled. The pregnancy was planned, anticipated, and desired. As soon as we found out, I immediately told everyone around me. Two weeks later when I started getting “morning” sickness, everyone around me knew that, too. I planned and planned, and I followed the baby’s development in […]
Continue ReadingThe Voice Of Inexperience
I don’t know how you feel. I can’t begin to imagine what you are going through. One of my colleagues lost her 18 year old son to an accident involving a faulty truck bed, I used to feel bad for her, and I thought I got it. Until I had my son. Upon returning to […]
Continue ReadingMiscarriage – How I Thought I’d Lost My Only Chance at Pregnancy
For most of my life I dreamed of having babies. The family joke was that I signed up to work in the church nursery the year after I graduated from it. I couldn’t get enough of ‘the babies’. As I got older I began having medical problems that led doctors to revisit the circumstances of […]
Continue ReadingNational Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day: I am 1 in 4
Today is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. 1 in 4 women experience a miscarriage in their lives, yet how many women do you know who actually talk about it? I doubt very many. Every single day in the US, 2,000 women lose a baby to pregnancy/infant loss. That’s 700,000 a year, a quarter […]
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