Parenting After Loss
Grief Counseling: a Guide on Your Healing Journey
By: Kelly Karavousanos Carrie entered counseling after she had experienced the stillbirth of her daughter, Kaylee. Carrie was married and had three other children under the ages of 8. Carrie said she wanted help and felt she had nowhere else to turn; it had been 8 months since Kaylee’s death, and she felt everyone was…
Read MoreWe Are Missing It All
By: Sabrina Ivy We are missing it all. And tonight it hurts like hell. Baby loss isn’t something that just happened at one tragic day in our lives years ago. It is something that we carry with us as we endure each and every day and special occasion that comes and goes without our daughter…
Read MoreLet Loss Guide Your Parenting
By: Shannon Duke As I write this post, I just finished up the day packing up items from Gracyn’s 1st birthday party. It was a great day filled with a hard’s day work of set-up, great music, delicious cupcakes, and wonderful friends. As I savored the time with those I cherished most, I couldn’t help…
Read MoreFinding Hope and Strength When Your Children are Grieving
By: Kayla Leibner I love my children more than my own life. All of them. I want what’s best for them. My husband, Ben, and I have four children – Jace, Kiley, Melody, and Jamie. We sound like a typical large family, right? Well, things aren’t always as they seem. There are things about our…
Read MoreStranger Interactions
By: Amy Lied Everyone loves babies, throw in more than one and people can’t contain themselves. We hear the same sentiments all the time. “Are they twins?” “You have your hands full!” “Boy/girl?” (While my twin daughters are both wearing pink…face palm!) “My second cousin twice removed has twins!” “My daughter has twins and she…
Read MoreTo The Mom Learning to Parent After Loss
By: Kelley O. You should be enjoying life as a new parent but you can’t. You feel guilty about being happy since you’ve lost so much in the past. The joy you feel about your new baby is in competition with the sadness brought about your past losses. As if being happy about a new…
Read MoreIf Someone Had Told Me…
By: Jennifer Haake Rainbows. If someone had told me that rainbows would become such an important part of my life, I would have looked at them like they had two heads. Why would rainbows ever be important? I mean sure, they are pretty and everyone loves them, but important? The first important rainbow was on…
Read MoreA Trip To Heal
By: Jenn Stachula I have always loved a good road trip, and a good story. And in the spring of 2017, our little family was in desperate need of both. In just a handful of months, we had experienced the greatest of joy with the news of a new baby in our family and endured…
Read MoreThe Calm In Our Storm
By: Sabrina Ivy Across the crowded hospital room, I caught a glimpse of my broken husband. He wasn’t just comforting our daughter, it was a rare moment that he allowed his grief to show. Whenever something broke, Emma would climb into daddy’s arms and say “Daddy, fix it.” Daddy couldn’t fix her broken heart this…
Read MoreThe Internal Battle of Parenting After Loss
By: Sabrina Ivy Parenting is hard. Parenting after loss takes it to a whole other level. From the moment we find out we are pregnant, we immediately begin to imagine our family with our new bundle of joy. Our sole purpose becomes ensuring we are doing everything we can to bring our babies into this…
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