Miscarriage: Heartbreaking For the Whole Family
By Megen Hibbins Most people think that miscarriage, although normal, is nothing to worry about. Yet emotionally it can hit us hard and take…
Pregnancy Loss
My Rainbow Baby: Pregnancy After Loss
By Cheree Sheldon *** Trigger warning – baby loss *** That feeling that you get when you see the double lines on the pregnancy…
A Mother’s Loss, A Mother’s Love
By Sally Saint. Trigger warning: This piece discusses miscarriage. As women we are blessed to be able to carry a new life inside of…
Miscarriage and Moving On
By Gemma Chatzipanagiotis The subject of miscarriage struggles to find a place in society. Cloaked in mystery and privacy it is a topic we seem…
Silent Grief
By Anna Stoyanoff There are some possibilities that, once options, can quickly become obligations. It happens with all kinds of decisions in our lives,…
Why Others Fear You As a Bereaved Mother
By Franchesca Cox Absolutely nothing in this world could have prepared me for that moment of walking away from the purpose I thought my…
When it’s More Than Just an Itch: Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP)
By Hannah Schenker You might not think feeling itchy when you’re pregnant is that big of a deal, but more than 5,000 women each…
Searching for a Sleeping Angel
By Dr. Kumari Valentine This past weekend, it was my daughter’s 4th birthday; my precious beautiful girl who was born sleeping. I baked a…
Pregnancy loss: A personal story
By Jamie Pike I want to share my story with you and the world. After my fourth pregnancy was high risk, and I was…
Grief vs Depression in loss
By Dr Kumari Valentine October is Pregnancy and Baby Loss awareness month. As a clinical psychologist, one of the questions I get asked is…
Hidden trauma in pregnancy-related losses
By Dr Kumari Valentine October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. This month is significant to me because I lost my daughter on…
Finding the language, to talk about birth-related loss.
By Dr Kumari Valentine Once upon a time, there was a fairy princess. She lived in a beautiful rose garden, because, as everyone knows,…