Putting a face on miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss
Pam
Mom to Isaac Thor
Born Sleeping March 4, 2011
Warrensburg, Missouri
Making the decision to have another baby was a long and prayerful process. We had a desire to add to our family and felt we were in a position to do so. Isaac was to fill that final child chapter in our book of life. Little did we know that his chapter would take the turn it did while changing and blessing our lives the way it has. [Read more...]
Lindsey
Mom to Lily Sarah Ellen
Lost on August 31, 2011
Mountain View, CA
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
My daughter Lily went from living in my womb to residing forever in my heart on August 31, 2011. I was 14 weeks and 4 days pregnant. At the time I am writing these words, it has been nearly three months since I lost my baby girl, just about the length of time I carried her in my body. Many of these lines were lifted straight from the journal I started while I was hospitalized following her death. If it seems disjointed, it’s because it was written over a period of many days, during many different moods. It has been a difficult process, putting them to type, but one done in loving memory of the baby who will always be, to me, my first child. Not a “miscarried fetus” or a “hope of a baby that never was,” but my first child: a true, unique and beloved individual. My story is a tribute to her memory, and is written in the hope that it may bring both comfort to other mothers who have lost their precious unborn babies, and awareness to those who, having never experienced such a tragedy themselves, are struggling to understand the experience. [Read more...]
Courtney
Mom to Angel Baby
Lost at 5 weeks, 5 days on November 6th, 2010
and second Angel Baby
Lost at 5 weeks, 5 days on January 15th, 2011
My story starts in October when I found out (to my great surprise) that I was pregnant. After the initial shock, I was ecstatic and rushed to tell my husband. We’ve always wanted children, that we birth ourselves and those others birth for us…we are baby people you could say. [Read more...]
Jennifer
Mom to Jason
May 5, 2008
Metro Atlanta, GA
My name is Jennifer, and boy am I terrible at pregnancy. [Read more...]
Samantha
Losses on December 31, 2006
January 20, 2009
October 20, 2009
December 23, 2009
July 12, 2010
April 2011
Cohoes, NY
My name is Samantha and I am a 33 year old woman who has had one live birth and has suffered 6 miscarriages. My husband and I were married in August of 2006 and decided we wanted to try and have children right away. We found out in November that were pregnant and were so excited. We decided to tell our families right away. They were all so excited, as were we. We had no idea what to expect, but things were going well. I started having some spotting just after Christmas, and was very scared by what was going on. I went to the ER with my husband and they said that it did not look good. By now I was having heavy bleeding and spotting. I ended up miscarrying our first child at 7 weeks. It was December 31, 2006. Sadly as I was in one hospital miscarrying, my niece was being born in another. [Read more...]
Melani
Mom to Evan Matthew, January 15th, 2010
and Kayden John, March 6th, 2011
Pima, Arizona
We found out I was pregnant with our 4th child Sept. 2009, two weeks later we found out my husband was going to be deployed to Iraq in May 2010, the same month this baby was due, so he would most likely miss the birth with due date and deployment date being so close together. [Read more...]
About a week after my husband proposed I ended up in the hospital. I was in horrific pain and could not move, talk, laugh, or cry without being in the worst pain I had felt. After several tests it was determined that I had E.coli poisoning and it had travelled down and created a small hole in my uterus. The doctors said it would be quite difficult for me to get pregnant and if I did I probably would have a quick miscarriage. We didn’t think much about what our future would hold and put off talking about the issue until after I graduated from college.
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