Attachment -- I worried it wouldn't come with my youngest, but it crashed down on me like a tidal wave.
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Timing being what it is, I found out about my brother's death on the heels of an ultrasound to confirm a pregnancy I hadn't expected so soon. Joy followed by grief, life followed by death -- the juxtaposition wasn't lost on me. There is an order to things, a sometimes awful balance.
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(*trigger*) This post deals with pregnancy loss.
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I like to do a bit of a "year in review" every January for the year that went before. This year I have been struggling with that.
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Today is Pregnancy And Infant Loss Remembrance Day. I have never marked this day in the past. I'm not terribly sentimental about this sort of thing, having had several miscarriages over the past number of years, but all the memorial posts and such in my Facebook news feed and Twitter stream this morning came at a bit of a bad time.
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WARNING: post contains discussion of fertility-related issues and may be a trigger for anyone struggling with these problems.
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