If you turn on the TV and flip through the channels, it becomes obvious that reality television has found its way into the hearts of Americans across the country. They come in various forms, such as reality competitions like “American Idol” or “The Bachelor” and family reality shows where the viewers get to be that ...
I am a registered nurse, however, nothing I learned about life and death prepared me for the death of my twin son in 1979. I was 29 years old that year and thrilled to learn, at five months pregnant, that I was carrying twins. Like most expectant mothers, I loved my pregnancy. I sang to ...
A friend of mine just found out that the baby she had known about for all of a week or so is not viable. Basically, that means there is no heartbeat, no baby. She should be six weeks pregnant, and the embryo measured at five weeks. That means it stopped growing a week ago. That ...
As I was getting ready for a wedding, I noticed a blood stain. It was one tiny drop of blood. At six weeks pregnant, I thought that I was having a miscarriage. My husband and I drove immediately to the hospital and I was given an internal exam. We were feeling anxiety and saddened by ...
We picked Minh up from the hospital. She was only a few days old. She was Vietnamese but you wouldn’t of known it. Light brown hair, light brown eyes… she smiled at us from day one. Minh was a little charmer. Full of fire, full of determination. Every week we showed up at the CPS ...
As a parent you feel you need to protect your baby even before it is born. Losing a baby can be one of the hardest deaths to deal with. Remember women and men grief differently. Mothers may go through a period of blaming yourself or your body. Fathers may want to go back to work ...
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