I usually love Halloween, seeing all the little kids in their cute costumes struggling to hold up their trick or treat bags and trying to say “trick or treat”.  But that first Halloween was only …

In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan declared October to be Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I was still in college, not yet married, and motherhood was a distant point in my future.  The proclamation, …

There’s the joke about the cemetery. “How many dead people are in there?” The answer: “All of them.” It brought a smile to my lips the first time a ten-year-old told me. But after my …

Deborah writes in: My infant grandson passed away on the day of his birth, and the anniversary is coming. Do you have any suggestions on how to celebrate this day? Mom and Dad are sooo …

Deborah writes in: My infant grandson passed away on the day of his birth, and the anniversary is coming. Do you have any suggestions on how to celebrate this day? Mom and Dad are sooo …

After my infant son, Dylan, died I started jotting down various things and scenes I recalled from our experience.  I wanted to write about these memories not only to capture the details of Dylan’s life …

By Monica Novak –
As I walked into the house on a Friday morning, my husband, Al, handed me the front page of the Chicago Tribune.? “I think you should read this,” he said.? The headline …

When I was working on my book, I interviewed a couple of people who either lost siblings very early in that sibling’s life, i.e. in infancy (and were thus very young themselves) or who were …

By Pamela Prime –??
Easter and the days leading up to it are a sacred time for many. In some ways ,this is an extraordinary time, a time filled with mystery. It was a time I …

Tiara writes: I just recently had my first child who was a still-born. I wake wondering what his voice sounds like, yet?I did feel?I knew. He seemed to be the friendliest?person that I would love. I?had to have my pregnancy induced. The sad part was I thought that would help more than it would hurt him, yet it seemed he wasn’t receiving all the things he needed. When my doctor told me my son was dead (I thought he was a girl for most his time in the womb), my heart was broken and I couldn’t hold back my tears. When I lost him, at first my state of mind wasn’t together. I heard what the doctors told me, but I was still assuming he was coming home to me.

By Nina Bennett –
I know all too well the devastation of pregnancy and infant loss. My precious granddaughter Maddy, after a healthy full-term pregnancy and normal labor, with no indication of fetal distress, slid still …

Babies aren?t supposed to die.? Yet, each year, in the United States alone, approximately 26,000 babies will be stillborn.? Another 26,000 will die within their first year of life.? And it is estimated that nearly …

SUBMITTED BY: MONICA NOVAK, GUEST, OCTOBER 11th
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
Babies aren?t supposed to die.? Yet, each year, in the United States alone, approximately 26,000 babies will be stillborn.? Another 26,000 will …