What I’m about to share with you is deeply personal and from my own experience, not professional advice from a doctor. I am a firm believer that each mom needs to be her own advocate for what she feels...
If you're brave or lucky enough to be an older mom (aka over 35), you’ll know there's a lot of indignity and humiliation that comes with it. While you’re trying to get pregnant, news articles will warn you you’ve...
"I got the email. Your results came back negative."
That's the text I got when I thought you were gone.
I had been so sure. I had been positive I was pregnant. I had every cornerstone symptom from my last two...
Dear First Trimester,
We need to talk.
No, it’s not me – it’s you.
You’re an unstable friend.
We’ve been down this road together three times now, so it seems we should be old pals. Yet I still don’t even know you. What...
The room was sterile and there were a million signatures needed from me. With every one, I wept. In hours, everything had changed - where I was once growing love and dreams and hope, I would be scraped and...
As tears crept like fire up my throat and like knives into my eyes, I studied her face. She kept it steady, tilting her head slightly as she grew more quiet, her light-hearted conversation hushing. The minutes were hours...
For these, there are rarely funerals, sympathy cards, grave stones or obituaries - but the feelings of loss for our babies that we didn't get a chance to know is very real.
On this Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, we acknowledge the grief, often...
This post has been written in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
Everything about the timing of my first pregnancy seemed perfect. I had just completed grad school, we had recently moved out of a small apartment and...
Next week will mark the day I've been dreading for nine months.
It's the day I was supposed to be meeting our second baby.
Instead, my first ultrasound last March confirmed a baby but no heartbeat. A few weeks later, I...
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