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Still Standing Magazine
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Founded in 2012, Still Standing Magazine has been the world's leading online voice in breaking the silence on child loss - from conception to adulthood, and infertility. We share stories from around the world of writers surviving the aftermath of loss and grief - and include information on how others can help.
Still Standing Magazine
7M ago
In the days after his passing, it felt like the world was spinning too fast while I stood still. The grief was suffocating, leaving me gasping for air. Every moment without my son reminded me of what I had lost and would never get back.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
It’s been almost 3.5 years since we lost our son. Initially, when he died, we received hundreds of cards and memorial gifts in his memory. So many people reached out. People we hadn’t spoken to in years (like my husband’s ex-girlfriend from high school as an example) because our loss touched them in some way. ... Read More about The Acknowledgement Of The Few
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
Last year, I signed up to run a half marathon only a few weeks after starting to run for the first time in my life. Crazy, huh? I joined a team that was fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House of Central Georgia and created a sub-team in memory of my son, Charlie. Team Charlie’s Angels, ... Read More about {10 Years Later} Little Lives, Big Inspiration
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
She then adds, with the softness of a woman who has suffered infertility for years, that she will not leave behind her tiny Augustine. She explains that her cryopreserved embryo was to be implanted in her uterus on the 26th of February but that the invasion had made it impossible.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
One of the tragic consequences of Covid-19 has been its catastrophic impact on cancer care.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
She may not have been alive to comfort me when Alex was killed, but I know, that for me, had I had to see my mother grieve not only his loss but also my suffering, it would have been doubly unbearable.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
With the death of my son, I lost Christmas. And consequently, so too did my surviving teenaged children.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
Today many of us in the loss community read your article on having a miscarriage and the memories it brought up of "being ok." I know many of us, including myself, read your words with a deep ache of understanding - our memories brought back to us of those moments when we just knew something was wrong.
You may face an onslaught of lash back from those outside the loss circle, those who can't fathom why anyone, and especially Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, would want to share about miscarriage and child loss - something so personal, so private.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
There was once a bright light in my life and then it was snuffed out. Yet I still feel the brightness of that first sweet child’s presence in my life.
And I can continue to honor her memory by lighting a candle, no matter what day of the year it is.
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Still Standing Magazine
8M ago
Since the onset of the coronavirus, I have been thinking of those parents who have recently lost their baby and how they might be affected by the pandemic. Five years ago, when my daughter Mia died in utero, the consultants recommended that I continue with my pregnancy so that her twin sister Emma could grow ... Read More about How Covid-19 Restrictions Impact Newly Bereaved Parents
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