I am back from the doctor’s. Dr. D, the woman who performed my D&C, examined me and said everything looks…
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Mother’s Day
Today is Mother’s Day in the US and it’s halfway over. I’ve never much cared for it, my own mother…
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Darkness and Light
Years ago, one of my high school teachers stated that people don’t create art when they’re happy. “When people are…
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Mourning Sickness
Winston Churchill said Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sometimes,…
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Protected: Despair
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Appropriate Grief Response
During my pregnancy loss counselling session last week, I was told that pregnancy loss grief intensity is not proportional to…
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…One Step Back
I learned a few weeks ago that the ob/gyn clinic where I got my prenatal care offers pregnancy loss (and…
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Better Days
There she was: slightly ahead of me, a tall, slender woman, about 35, ambling towards the book fair cashiers. Her turquoise…
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Connections
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be…
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First Milestone Date
Today marks the first milestone date: precisely one month or four weeks ago today I stared at the ultrasound screen…
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