When No One Talks About Your Baby Anymore
When no one talks about your baby anymore, the quiet can ache more than the early weeks did. Gentle ways to keep your child's name in the air at home.
The Wave of Light on October 15: Gentle Ways to Take Part at Home
On October 15 at 7pm, candles are lit around the world. Gentle ways to keep the wave of light at home, in whatever way you can manage.
What to Do With Your Baby’s Ultrasound Photos After Loss
Somewhere in your home there is probably a small paper envelope, or a folder on your phone, holding the grainy grey pictures from your ultrasounds. For a while they were the most e
Naming Your Baby After Loss: A Gentle Guide
Maybe you have been turning a name over in your mind for weeks, saying it quietly to yourself when the house is dark. Maybe the thought only just arrived, and it caught you off gua
When Pregnancy Announcements Hurt After Loss
Someone you know is having a baby. Maybe the text arrived with a sonogram photo attached, or you saw the balloons in a post while you were half awake and scrolling before bed. For
Creating a Remembrance Space for Your Baby at Home
There is a particular ache that comes from carrying so much love and having nowhere obvious to put it. You made room in your life and your body and your heart for your baby, and no
Explaining Pregnancy Loss to a Toddler, Gently
Your toddler keeps asking where the baby went. Maybe she still pats your belly the way she used to, or asks when the baby is coming home, and each time the question lands somewhere
Getting Through Mother’s Day After Losing a Baby
The advertisements start in April. The store displays, the emails asking what you would like for brunch, the little envelopes sent home from preschool with a handprint tucked insid
What to Do With the Nursery After Losing a Baby
The door to that room stays closed for a while. Maybe you walk past it a dozen times a day and never turn the handle. Maybe you sit in there at three in the morning because it is t
When Friends Disappear After Pregnancy Loss
In the first days after your baby died, your phone probably would not stop. Flowers on the porch. Meals dropped at the door. Long messages that said all the tender, clumsy things p
