More Than a Period

The smallest person ever to be born was just about the size of a period at the end of a sentance  Amazing, isn’t it?  And yet he received no accolades, no newspaper headlines, no spot in the Guinness World Records  Why is this?

Is it because virtually every minute another person around the world shares this amazing feat?  Is it because he’s too small for us to see without a microscope?  Is it because his birth was quiet?  Is it because he wasn’t actually alive during the birth?  Who is it inconveniencing, to validate his birth – to let his family validate his birth?

Mothers of pregnancy loss will tell you that periods matter  However small, however fleeting, they are important  In fact, don’t we all look for them, expect them, notice when they’re missing?

Yes, even the earliest pregnancy loss is more than just a period  It is still a birth  It is still a birthday  And that person, no matter how physically small, is still valuable  He is still worthy to be grieved, especially by his or her mother and family

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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