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
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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