As I stated last year, I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions. I think they’re generally committed to under duress, or worse yet, under the influence of eggnog and sugar. And since no judge in the world would be able to hold you accountable for any contracts drafted by the pen of Captain Morgan or Sara Lee…
Posts Tagged ‘Pregnancy Loss’
Leave a Message After the @#%*&
Posted in But Enough About Me. Let's Talk About You., tagged Autoimmune Disease, Health, miscarriage, New Years Resolutions, Pregnancy Loss, resolutions, Stillbirth on December 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A Pregnant Pause
Posted in But Enough About Me. Let's Talk About You., Surely You Gestate, tagged miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, Songs From the Choirgirl Hotel, Stillbirth, Tori Amos on October 26, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Several months ago, my husband and I unearthed my CD collection, which had been in storage for over a year, and I spent a day listening to songs and albums (are they still called albums?!) which I hadn’t heard in too long. Since my stillbirth in June, I had replayed a bit of the Tori Amos song “Spark” in my head, from her “miscarriage album”, From the Choirgirl Hotel. She’s convinced she could hold back a glacier. But she couldn’t keep baby alive… I found that song and played it on repeat, over and over and over and over again.
Because I Could Not Stop For Death…
Posted in Surely You Gestate, tagged Anticoagulant, Clotting Disorders, Fetal Death, Fetal Loss, Grief, Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth, Stillborn on August 28, 2010 | 13 Comments »
…Death put on its steel-toed boots and mounted a restless stallion who then jumped on the back of a pissed of rhinoceros who, in turn, hijacked an overheating Mack truck and ran me the hell over.
Mabel Joan
Posted in Surely You Gestate, Sweet Child O' Mine, tagged Clotting Disorders, Fetal Death, Fetal Loss, Grief, Induction, Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth on June 14, 2010 | 87 Comments »
My baby girl died. She was alive on Tuesday evening but an ultrasound on Wednesday morning showed that she no longer was. The ultrasound showed a tiny little girl with her legs crossed and her head bowed peacefully – and a flat line where the heart rate should have been. The ultrasound technician cried.



