Meaning of Mother’s Day
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Pregnancy and infant loss mothers, stillbirthday wants your feedback. May is Pregnancy Awareness Month here in the US, and so we here at stillbirthday would
written in honor of Bereaved Mother’s Day – May 6 She would be six years old. Her mother would be waking early in the morning,
Told by: Robin I was walking through the cemetery near my home in Kentucky recently and saw the tombstone of a child who was born and
Review and Giveaway! Important note: there is no ‘one right way’ to grieve, or to interpret your own loss. This giveaway challenge is specifically for
A full term pregnancy lasts approximately 280 days. Childbirth, for a first time mother, lasts approximately 24-36 hours. It lasts even less for subsequent births.
What is a pregnancy loss? “Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.”
“We need to get that debris out of there.” After I gave birth at home to my tiny but perfectly formed miscarried baby, those words still make
When two babies are born nearly a year apart, they are said to be Irish twins. This happens when one baby is conceived three months after
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.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
I am strong.
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.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
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