Loss

Pregnancy & Birth Loss

Pregnancy and birth loss brings a devastation that aches to be understood. Acknowledging the grieving process, and knowing you are not alone, can help women heal.

Recent Articles


	Solitary Sadness: The Need to Grieve Miscarriage Validating the suffering of losing a pregnancy.
	Carrying On After a Miscarriage I felt a kind of loneliness that only women who've had the companionship of life within can understand.
	Lactation After Loss When a woman experiences a stillbirth, or early infant death, her body seems to betray her with engorgement, a reminder that there is no baby to nourish or comfort.
	God's Will Once you experience the love, the immense volcano of love a mother has for her children, you can never be truly happy again. You’re too afraid to lose it.
	For the Not-Yet-Born: Reflections on Miscarriage, Ritual, and Healing On Mother’s Day, I actually imagined his face sitting at the table smiling with his big sisters. I was excited and joyous at the thought of bearing a third child.
	Riding the Waves I once read a book by a man who had lost a young son. He described his grief as a wave. It didn't resonate in me until I had a miscarriage.
	Reminder This baby has a role in my family. She gives me perspective.
	My Last Baby When my doctor wasn’t able to detect the heartbeat after sliding his Doppler over my goop-smeared belly for several minutes, I became a little concerned.

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