Tag: stillbirth
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April 07, 2009 12:56 PM EDT --
Tiny Traveler,
Bud of Hope,
Flesh of my Flesh...
nourished by this body
for seven months
until springtime came
in colorful array...
then the tiny bud . . .
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June 25, 2007 08:09 PM EDT --
(This is written in remembrance of my baby, Maryanna Hope who was stillborn on April 26, 1995)
Like a breath of springtime,
my baby...you would be
if you were nestled close to me;
You . . .
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April 27, 2009 02:33 PM EDT --
She watched
as the babe suckled her mother's breast,
feeling an intense longing
for the babe that she had lost.
No matter how she tried to escape these scenes,
they seemed to follow . . .
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March 05, 2008 10:40 AM EST --
She sat,
staring at the wall,
wishing she had
. . .
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May 31, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
It's been 9 years almost for me since I lost my little 7 day old Kassidy and I still mourn and hurt from it. You never forget but you just learn that life has to go on and your still here on this earth . . .
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May 01, 2006 11:14 PM EDT --
(This week is the anniversary of the day I laid my baby, Maryanna Hope to rest back in 1995. This is a poem I wrote when she was stillborn. I struggled with a lot of guilt because I . . .
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May 22, 2008 01:52 PM EDT --
White rose
hung on the door,
sterile and cold,
symbolizing
her empty womb
and the ghost it bore;
As pain racked her body,
anguish filled her . . .
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March 10, 2007 09:01 PM EST --
When my daughter lost her baby at 6-1/2 months along, she and I went through a really difficult time together. She dealt with it pretty well, but last year, went through a hard time, emotionally, . . .
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April 10, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
( This is dedicated to my little girl, Maryanna Hope Williams, who died in stillbirth 13 years ago this month. I wrote this the same week that we lost her)
Conceived by love . . .
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September 04, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
( I wrote this in 1996 after losing my baby, Maryanna Hope. She was stillborn. And although I never got to experience these things with her, they were all a part of what I had been dreaming of during my . . .
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November 07, 2007 06:48 PM EST --
I am the mother of four wonderful sons, two of whom, Lee and Nile, never came home.
Although they died many years ago, I still have the Polaroid shots taken by their attentive . . .
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April 14, 2007 02:41 AM EDT --
“I’m here! Beside you, mom! Can’t you feel me?” I keep saying that and sometimes, I think I’ve done it. I’ve broken through. There’s a . . .
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August 12, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
I probably would have said the death of my father - this past February 2009. But then my son was stillborn at 39 weeks gestation just a month and a half later, on April 1, 2009. Double whammy, I guess. . . .
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November 06, 2006 04:12 PM EST --
It was December 17th 2004 and the memory still feels as fresh as if it had happened yesterday. I was closing in on my 20th week of being pregnant and I couldn't have been a happier expectant mom. This . . .
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May 20, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
He was conceived in love in July of 2008. He was an Aries, coming to us we knew, some time in late March or early April. I was already the mother of four, yet bringing a fifth child into the world was . . .
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July 13, 2009 08:48 PM EDT --
I swear, life has been a roller coaster ride since Louie and I got married:
Dec 05- married Feb 06- I'm pregnant Aug 06- Louie deploys to Iraq Nov 06- Mackenzie is stillborn Jan 07- Louie returns to . . .
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August 27, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey - April 4, 2009
My midwife brought us dinner last night and did a quick postpartum check.
"Are you getting any rest and are you bleeding a lot?"
"No...and no."
I'm recovering . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part One
William would have been a week old today if he'd been alive the day I pushed him into the world. My due date. We'd been anticipating this date for nine months. . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:11 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part 2
"Can I have an epidural?" That's the first thing I said. Actually, the first thing I asked for was a c-section. Me, the woman who's had four natural births, . . .
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September 02, 2009 11:58 AM EDT --
Home
M. went to the funeral home to get William's ashes yesterday.
We stood at the table in a circle around my son's ashes, and my husband said a little blessing. And then he said something . . .
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