When you lose your baby, one of the hardest unforeseen difficulties is life after the loss. You know that deep down your life will be different and you know that things will change, but what you don’t think about right away is how it will change your relationships. At least, Continue Reading …
Editors Note: This post is about the false hope of pregnancy after loss. Ideas about pregnancy after loss are discussed by a mother with no living children. Please use caution when reading, if this is a hard topic for you. We understand that many Still Mothers are not able to Continue Reading …
By Lindsay S Each year Spring hits, the blossoms come in, and like clockwork my Pregdar goes into overdrive, and I see pregnant women EVERYWHERE! People start going outside more, Spring turns to Summer, and I start to see babies EVERYWHERE! To add to all the (blatant to me) breeding Continue Reading …
When your only child has passed away, you are left in a state of limbo. You feel suspended between here and there, lost “in between” parenthood and child-loss. Are you still a parent? Of course! Death cannot change that. But the horrible irony of being a parent without a child Continue Reading …
When I was younger, I never thought about having kids. I thought about my career and getting married someday, about where I wanted to live and the difference I wanted to make in the world, about the places I wanted to see and the experiences I wanted to have. Having Continue Reading …
by Lori Davis I vividly remember going home that morning. A few hours earlier we found out we would never carry our little girl into her nursery, at least not in the way we had always imagined. We returned home for a few hours to “collect” ourselves. Truthfully, there was Continue Reading …
By Éva Zsák Having lost my baby boy one of the “encouraging” lines I often received was ‘It happens to so many other women, it’s not unusual. You’ll get over it.’ For me, thus, the message to understand was that to lose your child is not infrequent, therefore, you should not take Continue Reading …
I am sitting on my couch looking at what seems like a mess on my ottoman. It isn’t really a mess, exactly. It’s just unfinished. A couple months ago, a dear friend invited me to a very special event for bereaved mothers – we were making memory boxes together. It Continue Reading …
by Leigh Kendall I started 2014 as an excited expectant mother: now I am a survivor of a rare, life-threatening illness, and an empty-armed mother. My heart is broken, my hopes dashed, my dreams destroyed. At the beginning of 2014 I was pregnant with my long-awaited first baby, who was due Continue Reading …
We all know that the death of a child is hard. There’s no question about that. The thought of a baby dying is one of the most tragic things imaginable, one of the most tragic things that can happen to happen to a person, no matter which way it’s spun. “I can’t Continue Reading …
Dear New Mama, This is hard. So very hard. You expected to be holding your beautiful, warm, breathing, wiggly baby in your arms. You expected sweet baby scent and the joys of tiny baby fingers and toes. You expected diaper changes, midnight feedings, and proudly introducing your beautiful little one Continue Reading …
By Carol Jacobson “Are you trying again?” That question! I’m not meaning to be rude, but I don’t think it’s anyone’s place to ask if Bill and I are “trying again”. It’s a deeply personal question that now comes with so many emotions tied so tightly to it. On one Continue Reading …
It’s been just over 18 months since my sweet baby girl Hannah passed away. She is my first and only child. It’s been a painful journey and I’ve learned so much. I know I have so much more to learn, but I only wish I didn’t have a reason to. Continue Reading …
