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Facts about Miscarriage · 1d ago

On Loss, Hope, Faith, Trying Again, and TTC #5

You know you’re caught up in trying to conceive when someone asks you what the day is and you immediately say, “Cycle Day 4!” I never thought I’d be in this place again. After our first baby died at 20 weeks (back in 1998), I didn’t think I’d ever get the courage to face the [...]
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Facts about Miscarriage · 1W ago

Mother’s Day Give Away #3

Comment on this post to win a copy of In the Company of Angels: A Memorial Book on Mother’s Day (US holiday, May 13.) This book is designed just like a traditional baby book, but it is meant for our babies who did not live to be born, or who died very shortly after birth. [...]
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Facts about Miscarriage · 2W ago

Mother’s Day Give Away #2

So many things out in the world are there just to help Baby Loss Moms. I’m always amazed by the talent and love that so many mothers put into their art. Some highlights Sculpture by D.  Antonia Truesdale. Angel Lullabies by Amy Robbins-Wilson. And of course for Give Away #1, the poems by Nicole Brei
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Facts about Miscarriage · 2W ago

Mother’s Day Give Away #1

I know this week is bittersweet for many of us. You’re here because at least one of your sweet babies didn’t make it into your arms. Mother’s Day is forever a mixed blessing for me. My first one, just two weeks after losing Casey at 20 weeks gestation, was so terrible I have blotted it [...]
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Facts about Miscarriage · 3W ago

Another April, another Angelversary for Casey Shay

Sometimes when women arrive at my Facebook group for those currently going through a loss, they ask, “How long until I get over this?” All I can say is, “Fourteen years and counting.” One of the hard things about losing a baby that no one else felt, or saw, or touched is that everyone wants you [...
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Facts about Miscarriage · 3M ago

How Good Housekeeping failed the Baby Loss community

In the February 2012 issue of Good Housekeeping, the magazine printed this pop quiz written by Peggy Post, now the head of Emily Post’s etiquette institute: Your coworker shared her good news that she was pregnant. Later, you learn that she has miscarried, so you: A. Say nothing, some things are pri
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Facts about Miscarriage · 5M ago

Building a relationship that survives miscarriage

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this topic since I started writing Stella & Dane. This couple has pretty tough beginnings, small town, disapproval, and both of them have a lot of growing up to do. I know that in this story, they will weather more than the average couple. Two miscarriages. Mu
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Facts about Miscarriage · 7M ago

My next novel is free — the backstory of one of the women from Baby Dust

My next book is going to be FREE for those who want to read it as I write it. In Baby Dust, you met Stella, who had two first-trimester miscarriages and several rounds of failed IVF. If you’ve read it, you learn Stella and her husband Dane’s devastating secret as to why they can’t adopt. [...]
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Facts about Miscarriage · 7M ago

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

I’m spending this morning listening to the song list that I will play at tonight’s candle lighting ceremony here in Austin. Each year, I have added a new favorite to the list, and now, hearing my history of song choices, I’m reminded of all the time that has passed since I was pregnant the first [..
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Facts about Miscarriage · 7M ago

Want to get through to your friends about baby loss? THIS is your chance.

I know many of you are hurting over family, friends, or coworkers who downplay the loss of your baby. They are not intending to hurt you, but they somehow think that if they don’t mention it, you will forget faster. Or that if they tell you that “time heals” or “you can have another baby,” [...]
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