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Dear Rainbow Baby, You Bring So Much Joy

He asks me to watch him swing every day. Sometimes I watch him through the window as I make dinner. Other times I pull up the little, blue lawn…

What you don’t know is the ultrasound picture on the refrigerator isn’t you. I couldn’t bring myself to take hers down, and still…

I love our son’s cry. To us, it means life. It means we have a living baby in front of us. When our first son Carter was born at 9:06 p.m., we…

It’s been five years. Five years this month since the first miscarriage happened. I took it pretty well, but if I would have known how it was just…

A week after I had the thrill of seeing a very strong heartbeat blinking away on the ultrasound, my husband and I were at our fertility doctor’s…

As I walked into the restaurant, a sea of pink balloons greeted me. Towers of sweet treats lined the table that was dotted with diapers and stuffed…

“Well, at least you’re still pregnant with one baby.” “Twins would have been so expensive. It’s a blessing.” “You can try again after…

It’s hard, it’s exhausting, it’s painful, enough to bring you to tears. But here’s the thing—I love being pregnant. I know plenty of women…

It’s been one year. One year since I put my hand over my womb and silently sent you my love, my final goodbye, as they wheeled me into the surgery…

I’m not attached to my rainbow baby. There, I said it. It’s a harsh reality to admit and it’s a comment that is sure to get a few gasps, but…