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Woman Rising

Posted in birth, birth experiences, Birth Thoughts, giving birth, mothers, pregnancy loss, quotes, women on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

No time for a long post today (or, probably, this week), so I share this quote I had saved from the book A Dozen Invisible Pieces by Kimmelin Hull (p. 229): “When faced with behavior battles, health concerns, family finances, and the struggle to stretch time to the fullest, I could choose to sink into the [...]

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Honoring Miscarriage

Posted in Activism, babies, birth, birth experiences, blog carnivals, ceremony, friends, giveaways, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss, Resources, tagged , , on February 22, 2012 | 11 Comments »

When I had my first miscarriage, I vowed several things in the immediate aftermath. One was that I was going to write a book about it so that other women would not have to experience the same total dearth of resources about the physical process of coping with home miscarriage. While I did publish my [...]

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Guardian of the Womb

Posted in birth art, miscarriage, personal, pregnancy loss, spirituality on February 7, 2012 | 7 Comments »

While I experienced my first miscarriage-birth as a powerfully transformative experience, my second miscarriage in 2010 was a terrible blow that brought me into a very dark and distressed place. I still have never managed to write much about this, even in my miscarriage blog/book. Following the second loss, I started reading a really wonderful [...]

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Time for a retreat!

Posted in childbirth educators, family, miscarriage, mothers, off topic, personal, pregnancy loss, self-care, spirituality, women on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of the truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~ K.T. Jong (via Kingfish Komment) Some time around November each year for the last three years, [...]

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Footprints on My Heart: A Memoir of Miscarriage & Pregnancy After Loss

Posted in babies, birth, birth experiences, Books, childbirth educators, family, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, Resources, self-care, women, writing on January 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »

As of this week, my miscarriage memoir, Footprints on My Heart, has finally been published and is now available in eBook format via Kindle and Lulu, Inc. (epub format compatible with Nook and iBooks). There are a few formatting errors and some other general problems (like with the sample/preview–it is totally wonky–and with the lettering [...]

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Imaginary Future Children

Posted in babies, family, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss, women on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My brother graduated from college earlier this year and recently got his ultimate dream job in a nearby state. This is the realization of a plan and vision he’s held for himself since he was a very small child. It is pretty exciting for the whole family! Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I was [...]

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Top Ten Things I Love About Having a Baby

Posted in babies, breastfeeding, family, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The winter holiday season remains linked with pregnancy loss for me. This time last year, I was entering the final stretch of my pregnancy-after-loss journey and feeling so hopeful that I would have a happy ending to my loss story. This time two years ago, I was reeling from Noah’s birth and it was so [...]

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Sand Tray Therapy

Posted in birth, birth art, birth experiences, birth stories, miscarriage, mothers, pregnancy loss on November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I hoped to finish Noah’s book before his birthday today, but I didn’t quite make it. I’m still editing the last half, adding resources to the appendix, and waiting for my husband to design the cover for me. Hopefully I will publish it by the end of the year! Instead, I wanted to share some [...]

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Rebirth: What We Don’t Say

Posted in babies, birth, giving birth, mothers, postpartum, pregnancy loss, women on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

A new self did emerge. This is what women do not tell each other. I want to say it here: You will die when you become a mother and it will hurt and it will be confusing and you will be someone you never imagined and then, you will be reborn. Truthfully, I have never [...]

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The Blessingway Connection

Posted in babies, birth, ceremony, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, women on July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Last weekend, I attended a mother blessing/blessingway* ceremony for a dear friend. I have mentioned her here before, because she is on a pregnancy-after-loss (PAL) journey after having given birth to a tiny boy after 16 weeks of pregnancy last July (my own Noah was born at 15 weeks in Nov., 2009). My friend’s baby [...]

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