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Due Date
I thought the due date wouldn’t bother me. I rationalized that most babies are not born on the due date, so Bennett would not have been born today anyhow. I decided I would go to work and that I did...
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Soggy Pillow
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh If only I could sleep long enough to dream....
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On Returning to Work
I returned too soon. I went back to work almost 6 weeks after my son went to heaven. I felt pressure from work to return since 6 weeks is what you are allotted for a vaginal delivery. Some people...
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Not there yet
It has been over a month since I have come here – I have actually written many posts, but could not put them up. I don’t want this to be a place to fume about things said or done (or not done), so I...
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I wear his name
I wear his name around my neck. He is with me. I don’t see him, or feel him, or hear him. But he is with me. I long to feel his 5 little pounds in my arms again. To study his 17-inch tiny body...
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Things Not to Send to a Dead Baby Parent During the Holidays
A Christmas card announcing your happy little pregnancy. For dead baby parents, the holidays are rough. Especially the first one (at least so far in my experience…but this is our first so who knows...
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Emotional Forecasting
I have been very delinquent with this blog. I sometimes sit and write in my journal with full intention of typing it up to post it. Sometimes I sit at the computer and draft posts, but decide not to...
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Schmirthdays
I don’t really know what I feel about birthdays now, but I know what I feel is different. Of course, feelings about birthdays and what they mean change as we age anyhow. When we are kids, birthdays...
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He hurts too…
Artwork from:http://blogs.babble.com (click on picture to link to site) Filed under: Uncategorized
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Another Holiday Heart Scar
Even though we made sure we had things to do yesterday with people who care, it is still so lonely on holidays as parents of the dead. We realized what we were missing. It is difficult to not think of...
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