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Miscarriage is Sad, and It’s OK To Say it Out Loud

I was 10-weeks pregnant, wiping ultrasound jelly off my stomach, and trying to focus on the weight of my husband’s hand on my shoulder to keep the…

This sounds absolutely horrible. But it’s real. And it’s raw. And let’s just be honest, we probably all have some thoughts like…

In one second of twisted fate, my pregnancy ended. At 39-weeks pregnant, my baby’s heart stopped silently in my womb. Her enthusiastic kicks faded…

Today my daughter would have been one month old. I have been through more at 22 than most people go through in their entire lives, but I will never…

No mother should ever have to bury her child. But it happens all the time. And this week it was a family we know, making my heart heavier and taking…

I carried the one. The estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies that end in loss. But instead of adding to our family, something was subtracted. Lost. One day I…

Each Monday evening, my son’s principal emails my son’s syllabus for the week. It’s a nicely organized Excel sheet complete with times for…

The sound of a woman sobbing wakes me. Moments pass in the still and quiet hours of the early morning before I realize that woman is me. Tears soak…

There’s such uncertainty when your baby dies. Whether you’ve lost them at 5-weeks gestation or 10 months after birth, it can be difficult to…

I loved you before I met you. Before it was just a dream. I didn’t know if I would ever meet you or when that day would be. I just knew when it…