Anger, Dealing With Others in Grief, Life After Loss, Stillbirth, Supporting a Friend After Loss, Triggers
Dealing With Others In Grief
7 Things I’ve Learned Since The Loss Of My Child
By Still Standing Contributor Angela Miller of A Bed For My Heart Child loss is a loss like no other. One
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October 28, 2015
Six Things I Wish People Knew About Grieving The Loss Of A Child
This post was originally published on Still Standing by Malka Ahmed Grieving the loss of a child is a grief
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October 26, 2015
6 Things To Never Say To A Bereaved Parent
By Still Standing Contributor Angela Miller of A Bed For My Heart If you’re a bereaved parent, you can
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January 22, 2014
Dear Newly Bereaved Parent
Post by Still Standing Contributor Angela Miller of A Bed For My Heart This will likely be the hardest thing
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January 27, 2016
Confessions Of A Grieving Mother
Post by Still Standing Contributor Jessi Snapp of Luminous Light Studio As a grieving mother, I tend to walk a very
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February 1, 2016
Please Don’t Forget About My Child
Post and Photo by Jessi Snapp of Luminous Light Studio Please, don’t forget about my child. This is my heartfelt
Hard Choices
I Didn’t Choose Death, Death Chose Me: On The Late-Term Abortion Law In New York
This article was co-written by Kaila Mugford – writer and social media coordinator at Still Standing and Diana Stone – editor and owner of Still Standing. The
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January 25, 2019
I Can Love My Baby, Grieve My Loss, And Still Have Had An Abortion
They say we are perfectionist uptight women who are unable to tolerate the thought of a child with special needs. They say we took the easy way out, to avoid dealing with a
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October 29, 2018
Bullied for Being Bereaved
Twitter is a cesspool. Believe it or not, that’s one of the first things that comes up when you search Google for information about the popular social media site. So maybe I
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June 7, 2018
Evoking Emotions: Three Loaded Terms
Words have meaning. As someone who writes, I know that. But words have great importance to me in my day job too. As a medical librarian, I speak daily in the language of MeSH
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June 7, 2017
For Fathers
We Look “Perfect” – What They Don’t Know
As I travel this journey of baby loss, of losing our one and only son Henry, I look around and no one knows, all these people I see around me in the street, they don’t know, they
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October 14, 2018
Parenting After Loss
Baby Lost
I am baby lost. No, that isn’t right. I am Bryce lost. Forever changed when I first saw his sweet face and heard
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January 30, 2019
Finding My “Ok”
Mondays are always the hardest for me. Especially after a weekend of having my little man be so good and me being
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January 16, 2019
On Parenting After Loss: My Truth
I’m going to share an ugly truth with you all. And for the record, my girls and their lives are my greatest
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January 4, 2019
Finding Hope
Love Is.
Losing my only child almost seven years ago destroyed me, there is no way around this truth. There is no pretty picture I can paint you, a step by step guide. It simply did
In The Waiting
“Storms make trees take deeper roots…” I’ve heard this quote several times. In support and sympathy cards, in Instagram or Facebook posts, or just a random passing
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February 6, 2019
New Hope
We blew bubbles for you again. Many bubbles. Your brother loves chasing them and I love seeing them fly up and away. I hoped they reached you. I just wish you were here. Every
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January 31, 2019
Love Remains
There is this defining moment in grief… which separates the past from the future. It is this bizarre collision of who you were and who you will become. It is memories
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January 24, 2019
Infertility
Not Everyone Gets A Rainbow Baby
Post by Still Standing Contributor RaeAnne Fredrickson of Still Mothers As someone who’s active in the online babyloss community, I know there is a lot of talk about Rainbow Babies. Who’s having
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January 10, 2014
For Friends & Family
An Open Letter To Moms With A Living Child – And Survivor’s Guilt
My dear friend: As we begin a new year, it’s hard not to think about how different our lives are going to be. It seems so long ago that we were looking forward to the same things. I still
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February 4, 2019
Advocacy
I Didn’t Choose Death, Death Chose Me: On The Late-Term Abortion Law In New York
This article was co-written by Kaila Mugford – writer and social media coordinator at Still Standing and
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January 25, 2019
Paid Leave for Stillbirth: Report on Stillbirth Research and Education
The Australian government released their Report on Stillbirth Research and Education last month. I mentioned it in
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January 19, 2019
2.5 Million Babies Died in 2016. Here Are The Simple Ways To Stop That.
In 2016, 2.5 million babies died, almost 1 million of them during the first 24 hours after birth (WHO). That sounds
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November 28, 2018