Pregnancy & Parenting After Loss – Courageous Mothers Community

Guest Post: The Darkness of October Gives Way to Light

The following is a guest post from Rebecca Hurtley, mama to one in her heart and one here on Earth, blogger at The Ivy Nest. Visit her blog and give her a follow ❤ ——– As some of you may know, October is such a bittersweet month for us; it’s the month that we said hello and…

Dress Up

My daughter likes to play dress up. Only she does not call it dress up. She just calls it clothes. She will wear rain boots on a sunny day and a flannel nightgown in the middle of summer. She marches to the beat of her own drummer, and I hope it stays that way. She…

Two Pink Lines

I saw two pink lines and the wave of shock and tremendous joy consumed my body. I twirled in a circle over the bathroom floor, with my hand over my mouth, trying to keep from crying or shouting. This is what I’ve wanted. This is it. And it happened 11 months after our fertility baby…

Book Review: Expecting Sunshine by Alexis Marie Chute

Expecting Sunshine is a new release by Alexis Marie Chute, about her first son Zachary, who was stillborn, and her subsequent pregnancy. You may have heard her name before – she’s a writer for PALS, her blog is called Wanted Chosen Planned, and she creating a documentary, also called Expecting Sunshine. In Expecting Sunshine, Alexis…