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,…

Donating After Loss

A couple of hours after Mina was born, before I even got to see her for the first time, the nurses in the maternity ward said I should start trying to pump breast milk. They warned that I probably wouldn’t get anything for a few days, especially because Mina was born so prematurely. To everyone’s…