Today, while we sip our coffee, go to work, make dinner, give kids baths, and otherwise move through our day, somewhere there is a woman who just found out that she is having a miscarriage. More than one woman today is going to rush to a doctors office or have an ultrasound reveal that the baby she already loves, doesn't have a heartbeat. There are women in NICUs with tears streaming because their baby's fight for life is finished. And somewhere else, another mother is weeping because her precious baby who she rocked to sleep did not wake up today. Today is for them, and their precious little ones. October 15 is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. I do not know what it feels like to stand over a crib in the NICU, and pray that today is not my child's last. Nor do I know how it feels to have a baby that I have hugged, nursed, and breathed in that unmistakable baby smell suddenly be gone from my life, in an instant. My heart hurts for these mommies and...
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