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I posted this on facebook and thought I'd share it here too and open it up for anybody else who might want to share.
Two years ago I was pregnant with our first baby, whose heart stopped beating a few weeks later. October is National Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. Take some time this month to remember and pray for the babies who were born asleep, whom we carried but never met, those we have held but could not take home, or who made it home but didn't stay, and for the families who will always love but rarely get to talk about their lost little ones.
I hate that women, including myself, are left to feel so alone after the loss of a baby. In the case of miscarriages, often nobody ever knew you were pregnant, and it's hard to share that, so it's often never talked about. The times I have shared about my loss, I've heard from so many other women who tell me that they lost a baby too, and although it's awful hearing that it happens to so many others, it makes you feel a little bit less alone.
We got pregnant after almost a year of trying, and after several months of fertility treatment. We saw the heartbeat at 6 weeks and heart it at 7 and 8 weeks. At 9 weeks, on October 30, 2012, it was gone, and I had a D&C 2 days later. I named the baby Jordan, which is a gender neutral name that was used in the Middle Ages for children who were baptized in holy water.
Two years ago I was pregnant with our first baby, whose heart stopped beating a few weeks later. October is National Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. Take some time this month to remember and pray for the babies who were born asleep, whom we carried but never met, those we have held but could not take home, or who made it home but didn't stay, and for the families who will always love but rarely get to talk about their lost little ones.
I hate that women, including myself, are left to feel so alone after the loss of a baby. In the case of miscarriages, often nobody ever knew you were pregnant, and it's hard to share that, so it's often never talked about. The times I have shared about my loss, I've heard from so many other women who tell me that they lost a baby too, and although it's awful hearing that it happens to so many others, it makes you feel a little bit less alone.
We got pregnant after almost a year of trying, and after several months of fertility treatment. We saw the heartbeat at 6 weeks and heart it at 7 and 8 weeks. At 9 weeks, on October 30, 2012, it was gone, and I had a D&C 2 days later. I named the baby Jordan, which is a gender neutral name that was used in the Middle Ages for children who were baptized in holy water.
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