Dear Husband, Please Love Me Through the Grief of This Miscarriage
To my husband, as you love me through miscarriage: I need you mightily in this season of grief. Our love…
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To my husband, as you love me through miscarriage: I need you mightily in this season of grief. Our love…
Continue ReadingI watch the needle slide into my arm and feel nothing. It’s fascinating, in a way, this numbness settling over…
Continue ReadingOctober 28, 2019: “I’m so sorry,” she said, as she backed away from the machine as if it were a…
Continue ReadingI was talking to a friend a few weeks ago about her recent missed miscarriage. As we talked through the…
Continue ReadingIn the time of greatest fear, I was shown the greatest compassion. My baby died. It sounds rather blunt to…
Continue ReadingTo the mother who can kiss all of her children goodnight. To the one who will get to watch her…
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Continue ReadingIt was my 14-week appointment with my midwife, and we chatted easily about our summer travel plans, which hospital I…
Continue ReadingThere are a lot of things they don’t tell you about the days after someone dies. There’s just no way…
Continue ReadingJust shy of two years following my daughter's death, I lay in my bed pleading God for rest. My newborn…
Continue ReadingGrief is a vulture—circling the carrion of our loss as we watch from spectator seats. As if the loss of…
Continue ReadingLoving a woman who has experienced trauma in her life isn’t always easy. The baggage she is carrying around is…
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