The National SHARE website has a pregnancy and infant loss support BLOG. Anyone suffering a loss or supporting someone suffering a pregnancy loss can submit a post and/or comment to the blog. There is comfort and power reading other family’s stories of loss. Here is an excerpt…
As a three time survivor of pregnancy loss, I know all too well that the words “moving forward” do not equal “letting go.”
Nearly 17 years after my first loss, I still feel the pain and grief. It’s not quite as raw as it was all of those years ago but it’s still there. I think about the son or daughter I never got to hold and I never had the opportunity to know. What would he or she look like? Would it be my green eyes that would stare back at me or would they be the brown eyes of my husband? Would he or she be panicking about SATs and college applications? I will never know the answer to these questions and I think that the unknown is what pains me the most as a grieving parent. Read more…