Pregnancy Loss

I'm a helper. Give me any problem and I will find you a solution, or at a minimum, a silver lining. I deal best under pressure and I take pride in keeping calm when things go awry. I am strong...

  1.2014 - Baby Piper     2.28.2010 - Nicholas 2.2011 - Baby M     3.22.2013 - Grace     4.1.2008 - Isabella Jean 4.25.2011 - Anna Labadie     5.2014 - Baby H 5.6.16 - Baby J     6.2008 - Baby M     7.2.2011 Charlotte Allen 7.9.2015 - Baby D #3 7.28.2016 - Eloise Ruth Morian Schoonover         10.2013 - Lily Grace         If you...

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou I wish you could have stayed a little longer, Baby. The spark that was your life was celebrated with an enthusiasm your mom doesn't often display....

This week marks Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day on October 15th. The month of October serves as a time to bring awareness to an issue that often goes without much talking while 25% of pregnancies do not go...

As the age old rhyme goes...'first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage." From a young age, that is the pattern I thought my life would follow.   Sadly, that was not the pattern of my...

January 22, 2014 - Days after I find out I'm pregnant for the second time, I experience signs of miscarriage, and soon get confirmation from my doctor that I'm no longer pregnant. January 22, 2015 - My beautiful daughter is...

A few weeks ago, I shared the lengthy story of my journey with infertility.  In that post I shared how I largely remained upbeat and positive through all the roadblocks we encountered.  However, there was another side to the...

A few days after our early miscarriage, I met one of my dearest friends for breakfast.  As we were so newly pregnant when the loss happened, I hadn't yet told her that we were.  I planned on filling her in at breakfast, when...

If you're anything like me, when you decided you wanted to try to have a baby (or another baby), you wanted to have it yesterday.  Am I right?  If there's a book, magazine, journal, blog, forum, or website with tips and tricks...

Less than a month after our wedding, a Sunday morning, I found out I was pregnant.  Although it wasn’t specifically planned, my husband (I’ll call him G) and I were eager to start a family, and had kept “busy”...