Adele from Our Pale Days submitted this post – I’ll let her explain why ❤ This post describes the medical management of my missed miscarriage in December 2015. I wanted to write about the experience in as frank and real manner as I could for others going through the same suffering. When I had learnt…
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Proud Mama
I am a proud Mama because I carried life in me for 30 weeks. My womb is the only home my daughter ever knew and I did my best to take care of her while she resided there. I know that while she was there she only knew love and comfort. I am a proud…
Flying for Time by Caitlin Robbins: Raising Money for a CuddleCot
Hi mamas, Most of you in the loss community have, at some point, learned about the CuddleCot. My husband and I knew nothing about them until long after we had lost our son, but there are so many days I wish our hospital had one on hand that hard day in October. Every parent deserves…
Loss In My Life After Loss: Lucy Rose’s Light
Meet Jessica, Lucy’s mama. She wrote this lovely piece on her own blog and has graciously shared it with us ❤ For the past six months, as I’ve made the treacherous trek through the landscape of grief, I have been doing all I can to make it through each day still standing. Every day has…
Wearing Memories
At any moment, I am wearing multiple items that represent and help me remember my son. They are small tokens that provide a concrete thing to aid in intentionally remembering him. To most people, these items probably don’t scream that they are memorials for a baby gone far too soon, and that’s okay. They are…
Grief and Concentration: 8 tips for coping with an inability to focus
Mamas, have you visited the What’s Your Grief website? I definitely suggest checking it out. They have SO much amazing content about grief, along with other special things they do (for instance, they have an “Exploring Grief Through Photography” online class coming up). Anyway, I saw this article about dealing with an inability to focus,…
Mindfulness for Loss Moms: Grief with Intention
Did you roll your eyes a little when you read the title of this article? Because, honestly, I did when I wrote it. I’m pretty new to the whole mindfulness thing. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, about 45 minutes from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Both my parents had grown up…
The Mailbox: An Unexpected Trigger
Hey mama, I want to give you a heads up – especially if you’re just starting your grief journey. Your postal carrier is soon going to be your least favorite person. I’m sure they’re lovely and I know they’re just doing their job, but there are times when they will send you into such a…
The Post-Loss Identity Crisis
We’ve all heard about the stages of grief, and I’m assuming we’ve all experienced the nonlinear way we cycle through all of the stages. I mean, heck, sometimes I hit all of them in one day. There’s another one, though, that I’m not sure we talk about enough… It’s the change in identity. We look…
How Do You Honor Your Child’s Memory?
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 4 1/2 months since we lost our son, Brady John. In many ways, it feels like it happened yesterday. Yet, I feel as if I am 100 years older. I’m sure many of you experience this same feeling of time warp. Over the past few months, we’ve done…
On Ignoring & Facing Grief
I’m a reader. I love how I can fall into a work of fiction and let my mind hang out there for a while, as well as how I can be inspired or learn something new from nonfiction. I’ve been in love with books since I learned to read, and was an English major in…
What does “healing” mean to you?
I wrote a post recently on Letters to Jonah about healing, and about what that word means to me. I feel like it’s important, so I’m sharing it here! In the post, I talked about how I’ll never be “healed,” but there are certain things that I can do that feel like healing – that…
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