
Little Baby's Caramel Apple Monkey Bread
Today I am 36 weeks pregnant with Little Baby. This is the point when most women excitedly think about their new baby coming home—and...


The Dead Baby Box
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I took the week off of work together to clear out the clutter in our home. It was a whirlwind...


A Butterfly for Sophia Chegia
"Who has a long life, who just a moment; love can not be measured with time." How is it possible that the most important moment of a...
I want women to know that it's okay to talk about the child they lost.
I was 3 months pregnant; my husband and I were both happy about the prospect of having another child (we have a daughter who was born in...


...I felt like such a failure as a woman.
When my daughter was 5 my partner of 4 years and I decided we wanted to add to our family. We tried for two years to conceive on our own...


No one told me that stillbirth was possible.
I lost my daughter at 38 weeks. Her name is Ella Michael Schoetzow. She was born on February 29, 2014. She was beautiful and I miss her....
Our grief was indescribable.
The story of Declan Eli is a, mostly, uneventful story. Harmony's pregnancy was as smooth as we could hope for. Outside some nausea and...
In honor of my stillborn daughter's first birthday, we collected...books on grieving...
My third child was stillborn at 41 weeks after a completely healthy pregnancy. In addition to handling our own grief, my husband and I...
...to the moon, to the stars and back.
Me and my husband were so excited to finally be adding our third child to complete our family, we had just told our family and everyone...
This doesn't happen to me. This isn't happening to me.
I am married to my high school sweetheart and live in the suburbs of South Florida. In 2010, we found out we were pregnant quickly with...