Support for Home Stillbirth
Mothers who have endured pregnancy losses make up a demographic that is largely misunderstood and as a consequence, poorly supported. Within this demographic, are different,
Mothers who have endured pregnancy losses make up a demographic that is largely misunderstood and as a consequence, poorly supported. Within this demographic, are different,
Heather discovered in her 16th week of pregnancy that her son, Grayson, had Anencephaly. Her providers gave her the option to terminate the pregnancy, but
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
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.”
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
I recently read an extremely biased and negative article regarding public grieving. In this article, the author made it clear that her view is that
As a new loss mom, I faced many opinions from others, about what my loss meant, how I could have prevented it, how I couldn’t
As if grief isn’t hard enough, the logistical and practical factors intrude into our safe space, demanding that our most vulnerable experience be gazed at
I have long believed that there is spiritual warfare in pregnancy. Satan cannot create life, and so why wouldn’t he be jealous of pregnancy? It
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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