How Many?
By: Kayla Leibner Who am I? I am a Christian. I am a mother. I am a wife. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a friend. I am more things, but these are the identities that are most important to me. First and foremost, my identity is in Christ. However, since…
Read MoreBereaved Mother’s Day
By: Amy Lied The Sunday before Mother’s Day. A day you never heard of until you joined this terrible club. It’s a day set assigned to honor the mothers who are living without their child/ren. It’s a day with which I have a love/hate relationship. I love the fact that we get our own day,…
Read MoreHow My Marriage Changed After My Miscarriage
By: Dr. Jessica Zucker Our feet touched as my husband and I leaned against our linen headboard in resignation, but we were a world apart. I had wine in one hand and a large spoonful of ice cream in the other. Since I was no longer pregnant, I figured sipping Chianti in bed while shoveling…
Read MoreThe Emotions You Experience During Your Grief
Embracing each emotion that comes with my loss and lifelong grief.
Read MoreThe Legacy of Strength: A Grandparent’s Grief
By: Kayla Leibner Seeing your child suffer is a type of suffering in itself. As parents, our love runs so deep that when they hurt or suffer, we also hurt and suffer. If something happens to cause one of my children distress or pain, my first instinct is to fix or remove the problem to…
Read MoreWalking to Remember
By: Kendra Goldman I first heard about the Share Walk on October 12th, 2016 while visiting the website. This was 2 days before I was scheduled for a D&C for my second miscarriage. The day of my D&C, I wanted to talk with my doctor to see if the walk would be something I’d be…
Read MoreThe Perspective of a Labor Nurse
By: Jennifer Kouri RN, CPLC “You are a labor & delivery nurse? You are SO lucky! That has to be the happiest unit in the hospital!” Working as a labor nurse for 20 years I have heard these phrases many times from people when they ask what I do for a living. Yes, it truly…
Read MoreWhy is Mommy Crying?
A children’s book explaining early pregnancy loss to young children By: Cori Baill, MD As an OB/GYN, a mother of two and now as a new children’s picture book author, I am deeply appreciative of this opportunity to write for Sharing Magazine. We as women know that grief shared is grief lessened. Yet in American…
Read MoreLet Not Grief Separate
By: Kayla & Ben Leibner When someone experiences the loss of a loved one, the way they feel, process and bear that burden is known as grief – and grief is a unique experience for everyone. Each individual person journeys through it in a different way, using different coping skills, and expressing that very grief…
Read MoreAcceptance…
By: Silvia Bowman Before I tell you how I was finally able to get to this peaceful and quiet “place” I call “acceptance,” I need to provide a little background: Since the tragic loss of my precious baby girl in 2007, I have been on a ride no mother ever wants to embark on.…
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