As the month of October ends, it signifies the close of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. The many stories of triumph over tragedy are inspiring. It’s a joy to see that healing is possible when you put in the work and fight to thrive after experiencing the devastation of infant loss. Related: October – Pregnancy…
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Balancing Work, Grief, And Self Care
Continue...Returning to work after your child has died is a huge transition in grief. No longer do you have hours in the day to process your emotions and it is more difficult to create time to practice self-care or tend to your heart. Grief is draining both physically and emotionally. Spending hours a day at work…
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I Am A Bereaved Mother
Continue...I am a bereaved mother. Early on I felt their stares, watching for signs of how I was coping with your loss. All eyes on me… wondering how I could possibly go on when they knew there was no way they could. Time slowly passes. I’m known as the mom whose kid died. There’s an…
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Anxiety Is A Jerk
Continue...My husband and daughter are about an hour away, learning all the cool things that come with being part of an outdoor education club, and instead of hanging out with friends and sipping on a cinnamon mocha, I’m inside my house, NOT cleaning, not doing anything but panicking. I am terrified I’m going to lose…
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Strength Isn’t Always As Strong As It Appears
Continue...What if strength is just an illusion? Strength is often talked about when discussing the grieving. When someone has experienced a significant loss, onlookers or people lining the sidelines often say things about the person’s strength with admiration. What if this perceived strength comes at a cost? What if that person you are admiring for…
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Consolation Prizes – Other Bereaved Parents
Continue...The club of bereaved parents is one that no one ever wants to join. To most parents, it is an abstract idea. Losing a child is something that happens to other people and not to them. But to us, it is a sad reality that we must live the rest of our lives with a…
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We Look “Perfect” – What They Don’t Know
Continue...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 don’t know I am a mother to Henry, they don’t know that my child has died. They see…
