When Your Friend Suffers a Miscarriage
**Trigger warning: pregnancy loss and miscarriage** I vividly remember the first time one of my friends suffered a miscarriage. We were sitting across from each other having lunch and she...
When Infertility Treatment Fails
by Kristin P.
National Infertility Awareness Week April 18 – 24, 2021 Anyone can be challenged to have a family. No matter your race, religion, sexuality or economic status, infertility does not discriminate. National...
Supermom Has it All… Including Postpartum Depression
Looking at other parents’ Facebook or Instagram feeds may make it seem like they really have it all… a wonderful marriage, a supportive spouse with a successful job, a beautiful house in the suburbs...
You Are Strong
Why it happens, I still will never understand. The pain, the grief of life, the things that aren’t supposed to happen. These things hit you, and they come out of...
Take Heart! Hope for the Newly Diagnosed Thyroid Cancer Patient
by Maureen Zhao
Dear Friend, I am so sorry. You didn’t ask for this, and you probably didn’t see this coming. Scared. Upset. Alone. None of us feel ready to face this type of...
We Are Mothers Who Have Lost
1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. Each year in the United States, there are about 3,500 Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUID). These deaths occur among infants less than 1 year old...
“Rainbow Babies” – When the Healing Hasn’t Come Yet
Rainbow Babies. If you haven’t heard the term, it’s one sometimes used to describe a baby that is born after a family has lost one too soon, just as a...
Pregnancy After Loss: When Hope is Hard
Every night, I chew a baby asprin, swallow a few other pills/vitamins, then grab an ice pack, a princess band-aid (because that’s the only kind we have) and head to...
Parenting from the Couch
I thought I had found the secret to the eternal junior department sizes after the birth of my second baby. Though I once again had no issue losing the...
Mom in the Making
by Lauren Jerle
It was late 2011, and I was coming down from the most amazing year of my life. It was the year I married my best friend on my family’s farm,...
