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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.
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Grace's Gift When it comes to infant death, especially stillbirth, we are often taught to keep the grief within ourselves. We need to find the language to talk about it—a safe place to share our feelings and emotions among each other. |
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Solitary Sadness: The Need to Grieve Miscarriage Validating the suffering of losing a pregnancy. |
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Reminder A mother grieves and pays tribute to the child she lost during pregnancy. |
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A Crunchy Mama Finds Her Way in the NICU A home-birthing mom navigates the NICU after her twins were born premature. |
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She's Always a Mother to Me She was the sweet-looking mom with baby in arms who stood in the waiting room with me outside our sons' music class week after week. |
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After a Miscarriage I was eleven weeks pregnant when I miscarried, just about the time when experts agree that your pregnancy is "safe." |
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Beyond Leo My sonogram lady's silence lasts a second too long. "What I see here doesn't look good," she says. She explains that she can't find the flickering; it's missing. |
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God's Will Here it is, I thought, the ultimate paradox of motherhood. The word “mother” ushers in images of fullness, of bellies, of breasts, of arms. Then there’s the flip side. |
