Miscarriage is hard. Families struggle with it all the time. It’s completely normal for it to impact and hurt everybody, not just the mother. Fathers, partners, children, grandparents can all be emotionally impacted by the loss of a child. So much support is focused on mothers (rightly so), but other members of your family need […] —> continue reading
I Know My Body Didn’t Fail Me But It Was a Process to Get There
It all happened rather slowly. I had opted not to receive any early ultrasounds so I had not yet heard my baby’s heartbeat but I knew from all my education that it was still early and not anything to worry about. I had had a fairly uneventful first trimester outside of the normal pregnancy illness. […] —> continue reading
4 Things to Do After a Miscarriage Before Getting Pregnant Again
If you’ve recently had a miscarriage, I give you my deepest sympathies. It’s a difficult experience, and I know when my wife and I had ours, we didn’t know quite what to do. It was an entirely new and unexpected experience, and we felt lost. We didn’t know whether we should tell people, what we […] —> continue reading
Everything Was Perfect Until the Prenatal Tests Came Back
I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks. I actually started feeling different when I was 2 weeks pregnant. I felt my little girl burring herself even then. Had my normal 8 week appointment and everything was perfect. Had all my blood work come back great. At 12 weeks I had the genetic testing done […] —> continue reading