Tag: stillborn
member name: Dawn M
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May 20, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
He was conceived in love in July of 2008. He was an Aries, coming to us we knew, some time in late March or early April. I was already the mother of four, yet bringing a fifth child into the world was . . .
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August 27, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey - April 4, 2009
My midwife brought us dinner last night and did a quick postpartum check.
"Are you getting any rest and are you bleeding a lot?"
"No...and no."
I'm recovering . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part One
William would have been a week old today if he'd been alive the day I pushed him into the world. My due date. We'd been anticipating this date for nine months. . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:11 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part 2
"Can I have an epidural?" That's the first thing I said. Actually, the first thing I asked for was a c-section. Me, the woman who's had four natural births, . . .
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August 12, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
I probably would have said the death of my father - this past February 2009. But then my son was stillborn at 39 weeks gestation just a month and a half later, on April 1, 2009. Double whammy, I guess. . . .
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August 27, 2009 07:21 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey - April 3, 2009
When my now seven year old daughter, Z., was just a year and a half, and my now six year old son, D., was about five months, I decided to give their Daddy, M., . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey: April 6, 2009
Some of the lessons I'm learning along this journey...
There is no end to suffering. Mine, yours, everyone's. There are no rules. Bad things don't happen . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:16 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part 3
Why had I been so afraid of him? Afraid to see him, touch him, even think of him, after I knew he was gone? Death scares us so much, that constant reminder. We're . . .
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September 02, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
Inanna Journey April 9, 2009
I should have known I wasn't ready for the world yet, but it was an experiment. We have a family gathering this weekend, and we were supposed to be bringing . . .
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September 02, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
Wallpaper
I put William's picture up as wallpaper on my computer screen.
For a week, I resisted, thinking it was too morbid, strange. It would be too painful, I told myself. I wouldn't be able . . .
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September 09, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Mars and Venus
I don't understand men.
I don't mean I don't love them, or deeply appreciate them and their differences from women - I do.
But sort of in the Venus/Mars . . .
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May 29, 2007 06:00 PM EDT --
Have you ever experienced a womb-loss, or know someone who has? Any sort of loss is traumatic, but a womb-loss is cuts deep and is especially painful for women, who sometimes experience shock, self-blame, . . .
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