I just came across Ariel Levy’s story last week, and what a brave mama she us. Her story, published by The New Yorker, is her story about giving birth to her son alone on a bathroom floor in Mongolia. He was 19 weeks gestation, and he lived for a few moments in her arms. Ariel’s…
Tag: miscarriage
One of Those Times NPR Makes You Feel Human
Today, we have a post to share by Kae about a show she heard on NPR. Although it wasn’t about pregnancy loss, she heard something in the show that made her think. She says: I’ve been feeling off lately and scrounging the internet for something- someone I could relate to. I’ve found some relevance in…
Our Rainbow Baby: A Poem By a Courageous Father
This rainbow baby poem comes to Courageous Mothers from a writer unlike any we’ve featured before. Robin Spina is a 66-year-old father of two (Nikki, 30; Matt, 27), and because of Courageous Mothers, found out that his daughter is a rainbow baby. Here’s his explanation: You see, I did not know the term, Rainbow Baby…
Refusing to Let Go: Our Pale Days
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…
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…
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…
A CD for Parents in Honor of Lily: For the Love
I’m so excited to introduce to you our first post in our new For the Love series, about what parents do to honor the memory of their littles that left too soon. Meet Heather! Heather’s Story I lost my 1st baby on Easter Sunday, & it was one of the most traumatic things I’ve ever…
Guest Post: Hope Lives On
“I would strongly advise you against trying again until you complete further testing.” The doctor’s words grated against my heart and irritated an already open wound. Just four weeks earlier, I’d sat in this office clutching an ultrasound referral form and the hope that this baby would be mine to keep. Already, I felt the…
Tending Inward
Why are we so quick to dismiss our grief? Is it because we don’t know how to carry it? My grief came out of left field this morning. I know the saying is, “It’s funny how that happens”, but quite honestly, it’s not funny how my grief shows up still. It doesn’t care where I…
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