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…
Tag: Life After Loss
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…
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:…
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…
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…
Now Accepting Published Posts!
Hello, Courageous Mothers and Fathers! We want this website to become a hub to not only read original content, but also discover great posts on others’ blogs. So many of you have so many amazing posts – we’d like to share them here! So, there’s a new form on the site for submitting a published…
Surviving the Aftermath
Featured photo credit: Paulina Rozpondek It’s been four years since my daughter was stillborn and what once seemed completely impossible isn’t so impossible anymore. I have survived. That is something I did not think I would be able to do after losing Zia. I am able to stand, smile and laugh about silly things. I…
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…
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…
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