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“While nothing can fully prepare you for a loss, I would give myself a hug and tell myself that everything will work out. ‘grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves ebbing and flowing, sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.’  Vicky Harrison”

October is Pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. When most people hear this, they think miscarriage or stillborn losses. What they don’t necessarily think about is infertility and tole it can take not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. Sometimes there is a specific reason for it and sometimes there is no known reason for […]

2 years ago, I had the honor of doing a special documentary on pregnancy and infant loss. I choose 7 women and shared their stories and journey from loss to rainbow pregnancy and then rainbow baby. You can read more about it here: This year I had the honor of meeting up with Betsy again. […]

It is the 2nd day of October. Every month of the year has a different remembrance theme and October is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. As some of you know a few years ago, I started a documentary to raise awareness of pregnancy and infant loss not just at the early stages of pregnancy […]

Today is the National Day of remembrance for those who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss. Today is day to remember all those babies who didn’t make it earth side but are still loved by all of us here on earth. Today is a day to honor the 1 in 4 women/families who go through […]

Hi gang! I was so excited to meet up with Colibra and Perry Glynn at High Shoal Falls for a stunning – and terribly sweet – maternity session. At the time, Colibra was mere 12 weeks away from giving birth Fraternal twin girls, so you can only imagine how she was feeling while we were […]

Monica Taylor is a mom from Dromore South, Dromahane Co Cork Ireland. I met her through one of my many support groups for women/families who have felt the loss of a pregnancy/infant/child. She was willing to share her story in my blog series from a crossed the ocean. A lot of women suffer from miscarriage. […]

Advice from women who have experienced the loss of a child.

When someone you know is experiencing the loss of a child, whether during pregnancy or when they are older, these are things we should all avoid saying/asking during their time of grief.

The following is another story of pregnancy/infant loss by one of my clients. Everyone of her children except her first (her sunshine baby) is a rainbow baby dueto miscarriage but this story focuses on the loss that wasn’t supposed tohappen. The one that should have lived if the proper steps had been taken byher doctors. […]