Tag: miscarriage
11 Steps That Helped Me Heal After Miscarriage
It was a day I feared but never actually expected to come. My husband and I were both home despite it being a Monday....
Pregnancy Scares Me: Coping with Anxiety After Miscarriages
Content Warning: This story contains details related to anxiety after miscarriages.
I am pregnant with my second child and am filled with doubt, fear, and...
What To Expect When You’re Having A Miscarriage. My Experience with...
When I became pregnant, it was after only a few months of trying. It was planned... and yet, it still caught me off-guard. Partially...
10 Ways to Memorialize Life Lost Through Miscarriage
When I lost my second child through miscarriage, one of the things I found incredibly difficult was validating their existence. It seemed particularly sad...
My Lost Pregnancy: Grief and Silence Losing a Baby Through Miscarriage
Over the summer, the July 4th holiday brought my extended family together in a joyful (and extremely hot) reunion on the lake. Two cousins...
Silently Suffering a Miscarriage: When the Mom Life Doesn’t Stop for...
I had a rough week, last week. I don’t typically talk about my feelings (like, I did once and it was a BIG deal...
Honoring the Memory of my Son After my Miscarriage
After suffering the loss of our son due to a miscarriage at about 20 weeks, it became very important to my husband and me...
One Mom’s Story of Miscarriage, Grief, and a Rainbow Baby
Two years ago, I had a miscarriage.
I was about nine weeks into the first trimester, feeling terribly sick until one day I woke...
Miscarriage Aftercare: How to Take Care of Your Mind, Body, Spirit,...
There is no question that suffering a miscarriage is devastating, heartbreaking, and all-consuming.
Depending on how far along the pregnancy was, the physical recovery itself...
Our Baby Had no Heartbeat: A Mom’s Tale of Miscarriage and...
When you’re pregnant, the sound of a Doppler not picking up a heartbeat is deafening.
That quiet when you’re waiting for the reassuring, rhythmic beating...
Ectopic Pregnancy – When Pregnancy Goes Wrong
Ectopic pregnancy is horrible. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare.
Ectopic pregnancy occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, usually in a fallopian...
Before the Rainbow: My Story of Pregnancy Loss and Miscarriage
October is pregnancy loss awareness month. A few weeks ago, one of our brave writers pointed out that women today don't talk about miscarriage...
We Need to Talk More About Miscarriage
As moms, we share about many things that happen in our lives.
We talk about sleepless nights and our absolute and complete exhaustion. We discuss...
I weaned myself off SSRIs and survived
I'm a mom who has struggled on and off with a deluge of mental health issues for quite some time.
16 years ago I was...