It never fails: strangers with only the nicest intentions comment on the HUGE age gap of my children with something like “WOW! You waited a long time!” or “You were almost done, why did you start over?” “Don’t you...
Dear Grieving Mother, You have lost a child, or maybe even children. You may have been 6 weeks pregnant, maybe even 20. Or maybe you delivered a baby that died shortly after. Maybe you lost a 5 year old or maybe...
One of the classic questions we get asked as moms is how many children we have. I always thought it would be an easy and straight forward question to answer. Now it is not, and I don’t know...
Today is a special day. October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. This day meant nothing to me two years ago, and in fact, I didn’t even know it existed. I was the woman who didn’t get...
As I'm writing this, I'm in a car with my sister, brother-in-law, mother, and daughter on the way to West Virginia. My parents were born and raised there. Momma was working for the local newspaper and daddy was working for the railroad when...
In April my husband and I unexpectedly found out we were pregnant with baby number three. I've always said I wanted two sets of kids close in age with a little gap in-between. My husband has been holding firm...
This is the 25th anniversary of National Infertility Week (April 20-26) and I thought I would tell you about my struggles with secondary infertility. According to Resolve.org (The National Infertility Association), secondary infertility is "defined as the inability to become...