Grandparents Day
Sunday, September 9 is National Grandparents Day. I became interested in doula work in my first pregnancy. I learned how magnificent the process of gestation
Sunday, September 9 is National Grandparents Day. I became interested in doula work in my first pregnancy. I learned how magnificent the process of gestation
Some dads make sure their employer knows well in advance that they want to be off work the weekend of the third Sunday of June.
On the hot summer night of June 7, several years ago, a woman began to labor her child, her daughter. The father of the child lay
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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,
This is my first Christmas after my miscarried baby was born. These are my (somewhat scattered) thoughts: I reflect on the way I was treated.
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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