On Tuesday, I go in for my 18wk ultrasound. I've decided I can live with finding out if Baby-the-Last is a boy or girl ahead of time, so I thought I'd open the floor for guesses by others, too!
Read MoreThere is comfort in the idea that the energy of those we have loved sticks around for awhile after they are gone.
Read MoreTiming 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.
Read More(*trigger*) This post deals with pregnancy loss.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreToday 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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