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	Solitary Sadness: The Need to Grieve Miscarriage Validating the suffering of losing a pregnancy.
	Grace's Gift When it comes to infant death, especially stillbirth, we are often taught to keep the grief within ourselves. We need to find the language to talk about it—a safe place to share our feelings and emotions among each other.
	Reminder A mother grieves and pays tribute to the child she lost during pregnancy.
	A Crunchy Mama Finds Her Way in the NICU A home-birthing mom navigates the NICU after her twins were born premature.
	She's Always a Mother to Me She was the sweet-looking mom with baby in arms who stood in the waiting room with me outside our sons' music class week after week.
	After a Miscarriage I was eleven weeks pregnant when I miscarried, just about the time when experts agree that your pregnancy is "safe."
	Beyond Leo My sonogram lady's silence lasts a second too long. "What I see here doesn't look good," she says. She explains that she can't find the flickering; it's missing.
	God's Will Here it is, I thought, the ultimate paradox of motherhood. The word “mother” ushers in images of fullness, of bellies, of breasts, of arms. Then there’s the flip side.
	In Praise of Telling Too Soon That thing they warn you about: it happened to me. I got pregnant. I was thrilled. I told a bunch of family and friends, and then I lost the baby in my second month.
	Riding the Waves I once read a book by a man who had lost a young son. He described his grief as a wave. It didn't resonate in me until I had a miscarriage.
	My Last Baby I had had two healthy beautiful boys within two and a half years of each other and then three subsequent miscarriages every six months.
	For the Not-Yet-Born: Reflections on Miscarriage, Ritual, and Healing The day after Mother’s Day I suffered my second miscarriage. On Mother’s Day, I actually imagined his face sitting at the table smiling with his big sisters. Or were we going to have another beautiful daughter?
	Lactation After Loss When a woman experiences a stillbirth, or early infant death, her body seems to betray her with engorgement, a reminder that there is no baby to nourish or comfort.
	Loss Pregnancy and birth loss brings a devastation that aches to be understood. Acknowledging the grieving process, and knowing you are not alone, can help women heal.
	Coping with the Emotional Challenges of Miscarriage In the support groups I conduct for women who have experienced a miscarriage, the following are some of the questions asked most frequently.
	Infant Mortality, Cesarean, and VBAC Rates 1994-1995 chart comparing infant mortality rates during VBAC and cesarean in more than 20 industrialized nations.

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