Life After Loss – Courageous Mothers Community

Tiny Magical Love: Tiny Hero

Hi courageous people! I have a post to share with you from Kate, a mama who writes on her blog, Tiny Magical Love. Such a great blog name 🙂 The post she submitted here is called Tiny Hero, and it made me feel the feels. She writes: People who are given challenging lessons develop a…

Guest Post: Still Learning

I graduated college many years ago but I’m still learning. Learning something that is not taught in school. Something only life can teach. Only life can hand you this type of lesson that no matter how many years you put into it – you are still learning. I’ve been on this life lesson for 7…

“My baby was stillborn but I still want the world to know him.”

Thanks so much to Ann-Maree for sending in this wonderful post about her beautiful son, Xavier, and telling the world all about him. Here’s a part I love: I’ve realised that our ‘modern society’ is not so modern when it comes to talking about stillbirth and grief. But I don’t think it’s deliberate. People freeze because they…

When Your Body Makes Milk For A Baby That Doesn’t Need It

One of the hardest things for me when I lost my daughter was figuring out what to do with the milk my body insisted on continuing to produce. I remember waking up that first night home after our daughter passed, emotionally in pain and physically in pain. I woke up with boulders on my chest,…

Last Christmas: Navigating holidays after infant loss

It’s hard to believe that we’re already in the last quarter of this year. Before you know it, we’ll be packing up Halloween decor and creating menus and place settings for Thanksgiving. After that, we’ll flip our calendars to December and the pre-Christmas frenzy begins. For those of us who have suffered pregnancy and infant…

Still Listening: Reflections One Year After Loss

Grief Like Waves I woke up this morning to a gorgeous view of the ocean, expansive and terrifying, all encompassing and boundless. The waves pound the shore, ebbing and flowing with the current. It’s absolutely breathtaking. In many ways, I’ve found grief to be like an ocean. In the early days and months after Xavier…

Lost at Sea: Beyond the Roundabout

This article comes to us from Claire at Beyond the Roundabout. Her beautiful daughter, Phoebe, lost her life at age 4 due to a genetic mutation. In this post, Claire writes about a cruise she and her husband took, and how she was able to handle it as a loss parent. Here’s a part I liked:…

5 Tips for Bereaved Parents

I feel weird even writing this. Who am I to give advice on something as personal as the biggest loss any of us will experience? Especially when we all grieve so differently, and there isn’t really a right or wrong way to do it. Should there even be a “top five” list for something like…

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is observed annually in the United States on October 15th. It is a day of remembrance for pregnancy loss and infant death which includes, but is not limited to, miscarriage, still birth, SIDS or the death of a newborn. How I wish I never knew about this day….

Everything happens for a reason? Yeah, right.

Thanks so much to Amy Lied for submitting this post from her own blog to feature on our site! From Amy: I feel like a lot of people can related to this post after loss. There is no reason we lost our children. It just happened to us. Nothing will ever be a satisfactory explanation for why…

But What If Not?

Mamas and dads, meet Kristin, writer at Sunlight in December. She sent this wonderful post in to be shared with all of your here, and we are so gladly sharing! From Kristin: I wrote this post for anyone with unfulfilled dreams, shortly after receiving news that my body may never carry another child. Many of…