Fetal Demise Delivery – What I Wished I Knew
The Day it All Goes Down When the ultrasound tech gave me a sorrowful face, apologized and looked down, my heart raced and tears started…
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The Day it All Goes Down When the ultrasound tech gave me a sorrowful face, apologized and looked down, my heart raced and tears started…
“I lost a baby.” It’s a phrase I find myself saying, in one way or another, every time the topic of how many kids…
Pretty much anytime your doctor uses the word “pregnancy” with an adjective before it, things can get pretty stressful, pretty quickly. If you’ve ever…
Let’s talk about a word that makes most women embarrassed to mention it once they’ve learned about it, especially when we all know someone…
Here it is. The taboo word that no one wants to utter. Miscarriage. You wait to announce your pregnancy until past the first trimester…
Getting pregnant was a surprise for me. Not to say that the method was a surprise – but the time frame certainly was. I…
After our first “bad ultrasound” with our son, Patrick, who was born still in April 2014, my husband and I walked to another building…
It is never easy to know how to support a friend who is experiencing pain or a loss of any kind, and miscarriage is…
Not that long ago, stillbirth was an easier topic to talk about. At the turn of the century, infant mortality was so high that…
I’m in a play right now. You might have heard of it. Pink is my signature color. Steel Magnolias, anyone? Doesn’t that conjure up…
It’s been six months since I lost my son. Never before have six months felt so long. Never before has so much life happened…
Due to some health issues that my husband and I had known about long before we starting trying to have children, we had to…
I have never given having children much consideration. Maybe it’s because I was an only child of a single mom and I watched her…
We named it Eugene-Eugene. Both of our father’s carry this middle name, which they begged us not to continue, and what we thought would…
I disliked being pregnant. I originally wrote “hated” but there were some pluses to consider, so “disliked” seems more appropriate. I mean, I had…
Sometimes loss is sadly a part of pregnancy and it’s often a dark topic that nobody wants to talk about and you become…