What To Say When a Baby Dies It can be difficult to know what to say when a baby dies. As we wrap up another October, which is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I think it’s important to share this post again. It’s been a long time since I wrote it, and it deserved […]
Dear Kathryn… six years later
It’s been six years since she left us. It’s hard not to relive that day. For two very short days, we watched her struggle to breathe and live. My husband and I prayed that somehow a miracle would happen, but one never came. Dear Kathryn – I want you to know you’re missed. We love […]
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month 2016
This month is pregnancy & infant loss awareness month. It’s important for me to bring awareness to the topic and have these resources for you. For those of you who are not familiar with my story, I lost one of my identical twin daughters when they were two days old. So this is a very personal topic. Here are […]
The TTTS Support Team Annual Fundraiser
In 2011 a group of parents of identical twins started banding together, united in the grief over the death of their child(ren) due to Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome – TTTS. We had firsthand knowledge of the dark, desperate, isolating and confusing days and months after the death of a baby. In our desire to […]
Tiny Superhero
A few days ago, my sweet survivor baby Tiny asked if she could rest with my “Kathryn Bear.” I reluctantly said yes. This Kathryn bear is so very special to me. It was hand made by a volunteer for the Molly Bears organization, and it weighs exactly the same amount that my Kathryn did when […]
When Saying Nothing May Just Be Your Best Option
I wrote and published a piece on my blog dedicated to encouraging grieving parents, Sunshine After the Storm, and it is something I am so passionate about, I decided to go ahead and post it on this page too. Although I write about a lot of topics, including health and advocacy and social good, the […]
Resources for Grieving Mothers
Pregnancy and infant loss awareness month is drawing to a close. I feel badly, because it was my intent to write more frequently, to give more encouragement, and to share more resources for grieving mothers. But this month was full of LIFE. That, I suppose, is the best piece of encouragement I can give to […]
#CaptureYourGrief {Wordless Wednesday}
{Full Project Details – http://carlymarieprojectheal.com/2014/09/capture-your-grief-2014.html} Today is Day 8 of “Capture your grief” Today is Resource. I will be posting a lot about resources over the next few days, but for today, I want to share my Capture Your Grief Images thus far. I skipped Day 5 for some reason?
Unexpected Heartbreak {Wordless Wednesday}
Crew and Dex’s TTTS Story + Teeny Tears
If you are a TTTS parent and you don’t know about Teeny Tears, you need to learn about it. It’s a fabulous service organization to any one who has lost a baby… you’ll read more farther down. I want to feature the founder and her TTTS story, and to say that I have finally brought […]
6.6 Million Families will never be whole again – Ending Newborn Death
Ending Newborn Death Obviously, this is an important topic to me. I lost a two day old infant and have been championing for Newborn Health ever since. I often blog about this topic, most recently about the Newborn Health Action Plan. So when Social Good Moms sent out information about raising awareness to help end […]
Day of Hope
Today, August 19th, is the 5th Annual “Day of Hope.” This day to honor and celebrate babies and children lost was begun by CarlyMarie and Project Heal in 2008. Visit CarlyMarie’s facebook page for a wide variety of banners, cover and profile images for infant, baby, pregnancy, and child loss. Carly Marie began Project Heal […]
The Other Side
My Joy Has a Twin Named Grief Happy Blogiversary to No Holding Back But it’s not necessarily happy for me, rather, shrouded in grief. One year ago today I published my first “real” blog post on No Holding Back, entitled 6 Months Ago Today. This post details the day that we lost one of our […]
How to Help a Friend Survive the First Year after Pregnancy or Infant Loss
Surviving Infant Loss Watching a friend suffer the loss of a child or baby is one of the most difficult situations you may ever encounter in life. Surviving infant loss is one of the most worst experiences a mother can go through. Loss and death combined with what is typically a positive, joyous occasion puts […]
