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…
Loss
Losing a Baby Shouldn’t Be So Isolating
“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…
What You Need to Know About Ectopic Pregnancy
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…
Hyperfertility and Too Much of a Good Thing
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…
Three Miscarriages, Three Experiences: There’s No Easy Option
Here it is. The taboo word that no one wants to utter. Miscarriage. You wait to announce your pregnancy until past the first trimester…
My One-Off Baby
Getting pregnant was a surprise for me. Not to say that the method was a surprise – but the time frame certainly was. I…
Blowing Raspberries
After our first “bad ultrasound” with our son, Patrick, who was born still in April 2014, my husband and I walked to another building…
What To Do When Your Friend Has A Miscarriage
It is never easy to know how to support a friend who is experiencing pain or a loss of any kind, and miscarriage is…
Scary Shit Series – Stillbirth
Not that long ago, stillbirth was an easier topic to talk about. At the turn of the century, infant mortality was so high that…
What Steel Magnolias Taught Me About My Miscarriage
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…
Eight Things I’ve Learned As A Newly Bereaved Mother
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…
On Not Holding Back Joy
Due to some health issues that my husband and I had known about long before we starting trying to have children, we had to…
Pregnant Pause
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…
Eugene – Eugene
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…
Loss and Miscarriage
Sometimes loss is sadly a part of pregnancy and it’s often a dark topic that nobody wants to talk about and you become…