“I’m sorry, there’s no heartbeat.” One of the most devastating lines a mother can hear, that one can almost define their life as Before and After. Unfortunately, also one that is far too common, as more than one quarter of pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth. My husband and I have always required the assistance […]
I’m going to do something a little different and include some of the writing I did when I was very fresh in my pain and grief. It has been almost a year now, and the tears still come at times, but I have a better handle on my grief and I’m able to share with
June 2016 had just begun and I suddenly found myself extremely emotional. Like, cry because the wind breezes past my face. It dawned on me I may be pregnant. So after my first aid course finished for the day I raced to a pharmacy and grabbed a pregnancy test. A half hour later I was
I wish that no mom had to go through loss, I wish loss didn’t exist but unfortunately it does and what is worse is that many moms suffer or grieve in silence. Pregnancy and infant loss seem to be taboo topics within our society but it shouldn’t be and it is not fair to the
Hi, my name is Karissa and here’s a look at our journey to start a family. I met my husband in 2018. We were engaged the same year and got married the following June of 2019. We decided we wanted to start a family soon after our wedding and two short months later we got
I lost my daughter, Kaylee Grace due to a full placental abruption. I was two weeks shy of my due date. My pregnancy was perfect in every way. I was a very healthy young woman and did everything right to make sure my baby was healthy. I had a normal workweek and had professional maternity