Minimizing the significance of her loss can also make things feel so much heavier.
Please, mama, do not ignore this stage. Cry, scream, doubt, everything. FEEL it. This is the only way we'll get through this period of time.
"Something was there," the nurse said. "But it's gone now."
Our hearts are with her and her family.
I still cry every time I look at them, but they also help me continue to heal.
When a mother has a miscarriage or infant loss, our job is to cloak her in nurturing love and support.
You carried life, mama. I hope you will learn to trust your body again one day.
These celebrities are helping others experiencing pregnancy loss.
Her children are 9, 3 and 10 months old.
Grief reminds me of the love I felt; that I have something to miss; that my baby was here.
There are a chain of reactions that may occur in order for the healing to begin.
Another doctor's office, another doctor, another devastating blow.
I still can't comprehend our grief. We were told losing our baby to a "cord accident" was rare. It was like a car crash; no one could predict when or why or how or the impact. It just...happened. But it still doesn't make it fair. It doesn't lessen the shock. It doesn't bring our daughter back.
Nine weeks. Nine weeks is all I had with her. But she will be forever in our lives.
"They were hard. And it sucked so much!"
I finally felt the enormity of what I had just lost.
How do you come to terms that you will never hold your baby?
It goes beyond the dollar amounts, though those costs add up, too.
Even though my experience led to my rainbow baby, I can still always connect to the heartbreak that I felt those several months.
I questioned how to remember our baby, how to know my relationship with him, my son.