It has been a pretty smooth week, so I have been reflecting on how we got here. When I first started on this journey of loss, I was angry. I didn’t understand why this was happening to us as a couple and to me personally. The first one we thought, "Wow, this really stinks, what The post Bridget’s Bump Day Blog, Week 13: Surround Yourself with People and Things that Give You Hope appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

I’ve been trying to find a definition of hope. I know, this sounds like the start of a bad wedding speech - “the dictionary definition of love…”. But truthfully I worry that my last few updates have strayed a bit too far on the side of fear and negativity. I click back to the PALS The post Issy’s Bump Day Blog, Week 33: Making room for hope again appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

My boyfriend and I have been together going on six years as of 2024. We’ve been through the worst and yet, the absolute best as of 2023, when our life forever changed due to our rainbow baby boy being born. In 2020, I experienced my first miscarriage. I hadn't made it to an ultrasound yet, The post Chosen: A Rainbow Birth Story appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

Spring is here. Last spring, I was so ready for the winter blues of two consecutive losses to go away, and seeing the new buds of flowers and leaves and green grass had given me the hope I needed for a future healthy pregnancy. Little did I know we would go on to experience a The post Bridget’s Bump Day Blog Week 12: Spring (and the bump) is here appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

I received a well-meaning text the other day: “Praying for you for peace, perseverance, and trust.” I wanted to reply, trust in what? Trust in God, in the universe, that neither of them would be so cruel as to let a second baby die? I’m part of the baby loss world, I’ve read the saddest The post Issy’s Bump Day Blog, Week 32: Please let me be scared appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

Before ever knowing I would be a weekly Bump Day Blog writer, I started keeping a running list of thoughts in a note on my phone. For anyone who is curious about what it’s like inside the head of someone who is newly pregnant after loss, this may offer some insight: One little faint line. The post Bridget’s Bump Day Blog Week 11: The Tug of War Inside My Head appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

Baby Leo entered the world on February 1st, 2024, but his story began three years before. Back when I didn’t know what a missed miscarriage was. Back when I never imagined having a baby would require me to go under anesthesia five times or have my husband poke my stomach with hormone injections night after The post Pregnancy After Recurrent Loss: Leo the Lion appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

I had a picture-perfect pregnancy in 2020 and welcomed a beautiful boy in January 2021. Having gone to all of my appointments solo due to the pandemic, I wasn't nervous to go to my appointments alone once I got pregnant again in May 2022.  At 7 weeks 5 days, I went in by myself, and The post Bridget’s Bump Day Blog, Week 10: Leap of Faith appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

I saw a post on Twitter this week that said “You win some and you lose some and you lose some and you lose some and you lose some and–” It made me laugh, and it felt relatable. We’ve just had two weeks off for the Easter holidays (perks of working in education), and the The post Issy’s Bump Day Blog, Week 31: Breaks the Camel’s Back appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more

I am in project mode. I’ve recently finished sewing a set of soft stacking blocks--fox themed. Next, I filled an IKEA basket (now waiting for my kind dad to collect and deliver the goods and help us build them) for a dining room improvement project. I spent longer than necessary scrolling through the same shelves The post Issy’s Bump Day Blog, Week 30: Preparing the Way appeared first on Pregnancy After Loss Support ..read more