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grief/loss

How to help kids with grief when an adult relationship ends

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I didn’t have my therapist hat on when my son went through his grief—I was just his mom, muddling through it alongside him. By Lori Gottlieb

June 19, 2019 Books, Parenting Challenges

Deciding what to do with our one frozen embryo

Bright blue frozen embryo with cells in the shape of a question mark
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This year is different. Maybe it’s because I’ve had the miscarriages. Maybe it’s because we both recently turned 42. By Angela Kidd

April 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Seeing my complete family in the night sky

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Next to Orion’s Belt are two dimmer stars. These are the babies I lost, one before each of my sons. By Julia Pelly

March 28, 2019 Parenting Challenges

On Prince, David Bowie, and losing Baby A

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Our daughter asked good questions—what about the other baby? Were we sad? Why did it happen? By Cynthia Nuara

February 27, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

On the anniversary of my friend’s son’s death

Close up on shiny black stones with a green leafy sprout coming from the ground beneath
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I sent you a bowl of black stones because of the hardness of loving a child for exactly who he is. By Brianne DeRosa

January 24, 2019 Parenting Challenges

I had a miscarriage. This is my story.

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If my belly was round and full of baby, would I hate my body less? This body that betrayed me. By Brittany Wren

December 3, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Can my 70-year-old mother find love after loss?

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It had been a long time since I’d heard her laugh. It felt like clouds parting. By Stewart Lewis

November 15, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Before and after my mother’s accident

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Time heals so much of what goes wrong in life, but the memory of what happened to Mum on that day still makes my body react. By Clover Stroud

November 12, 2018 Books

The little moments when we are hit by grief

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You will be in your slippers, making waffles, and suddenly remember that your mother is dead. By Brianne DeRosa

October 17, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Helping my mother clean out her closet, the year before she died

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After we gave it all to Goodwill, I lived in fear every day that I would see somebody else wearing my mom’s clothes. By Kandace Chapple

October 9, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t like to shush my kids

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Sometimes making yourself quieter for other people is the same as making yourself smaller. By Lauren Apfel

June 7, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How to explain blame and divorce to my son

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“Momma was crying last night,” my seven-year-old said. “She was crying because you left our family.” By Erik Raschke

May 30, 2018 Parenting Challenges

After divorce, when a fish is not just a fish

single goldfish in glass bowl in front of ominous purple background
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Perhaps the fish were feeble replacements for all that we had lost, but they were also hopeful things. By Samantha Shanley

March 29, 2018 Parenting Challenges

What to expect when you are unexpecting

thin tree branches in front orange and pink sunset
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Nobody will send flowers. You don’t even have a face to conjure when you think of this child. By Maggie Downs

February 28, 2018 Parenting Challenges

When three steps on the crosswalk saved my daughter’s life

grayscale young girl running across a crosswalk
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For what seems like a single frame of the video, I see my child silhouetted in the lights of the oncoming car. By Ian Smith

January 25, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Childhood cancer in the UK, with no hospital bills

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This is how it works in a humane society. Someone gets a bad break, and the system is set up to cushion the blow. By Mary Janevic

October 16, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

For my Facebook friend who is in pain

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We connected through the magic of the internet. Her son was in crisis. Could I help?
By Brianne DeRosa

September 6, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to talk to my ovaries

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So why is it you want a baby, my therapist asks. Love, I answer.
By Bethany Marcel

May 16, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to handle it when IVF takes over your life

drawing of IVF
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More than my body and my schedule, IVF took over my mind.
By Belle Boggs

April 17, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

How to RSVP when you are going through IVF

drawing of lots of colored lenvelopes
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Sorry, can’t make it to the sorority reunion. My thermometer says I’m ovulating!
By Amy Klein

April 13, 2017 Family, Obstacles, Parenting Challenges

My foster child is gone, am I still a mother?

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I cling to the knowledge that if I have given her anything, I have given her hope. I see it in her smile.
By Jenn O’Connor

January 17, 2017 Parenting Challenges

In the moment of miscarriage

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I can’t imagine spreading my legs and letting doctors make quick work of this loss.
By Nicole Piasecki

January 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The first photo of my premature baby

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Photographs suggested a future, a future in which we would look back at this moment, but a future where our baby might be gone.
By Yvonne Spence

November 22, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

The boring tragedies of parenthood

Sketch of ancient women in a row holding onto each other
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I am shocked still by the parenting moments that break my heart.
By Catherine Newman

October 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

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