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pregnancy loss

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

I never grieved my miscarriage, and then the blender exploded

three colourful smoothies in classes
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I needed a kitchen coated in berry smoothie to finally understand what I couldn’t then. By Nicole Gulotta

June 28, 2021 Parenting Challenges

A stranger’s gift to me in the Phoenix airport

airport window with setting sun
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It occurred to me that I would have to live with this lifeless body—my baby—inside me for the next four days. By Sarah Gundle

June 3, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I dreamed of a boy, birthed a girl, now my child is non-binary

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I stumbled over the “they.” It felt clunky in my mouth. By Melissa Brand

May 20, 2021 Family, 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 journey of pregnancy after miscarriage

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The #IHadAMiscarriage campaign was launched to de-stigmatize pregnancy loss.
By Jessica Zucker

October 13, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Fertility is not a competitive sport

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I was ashamed of my pregnancy losses. I felt I had been kicked out of some elite club of women with impeccably functioning wombs.
By Stephanie Sprenger

July 21, 2016 Parenting Challenges
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