Beautiful Calling

Photo by kudomomo Do you know someone who has experienced a miscarriage? What do you say? How do you help and show you care? The answer really depends on the person and the relationship you have with them. Life as Mom dealt with this topic this spring but I wanted to share with you from [...]

Photo by kudomomo Physical Survival: Eat, Drink, Rest.  Miscarriage is hard on your body and if you’ve had any medical interventions it can be even more so. It is important to care for your physical body to help you recover. Adequate rest, nutritious foods and proper hydration are so important even though right now you [...]

Photo by kudomomo I once read that “grief is a lifelong process ; that it is not the passage of time alone that heals but what you do with that time that heals.” The agonizing pain that you feel will gradually diminish as time passes and you work through it but it will never completely [...]

Photo by kudomomo Isaiah was a good thing and he was given to me by God to accomplish purposes that only God knew. I was privileged to see some of those things that may not have come about otherwise. The best good thing that happened was that my relationship with the Lord was restored. Through [...]

Photo by kudomomo continued from Death Before Birth: Isaiah’s Story Part I and Isaiah’s Story Part II The Next Day I woke up crying. Though I had been fairly early in my pregnancy and the baby hadn’t been that big, I still felt very empty. Emotionally and physically. Scott asked if I might like to [...]

Photo by kudomomo To catch up: Miscarriage Basics, Isaiah’s Birth Story Part I Having Isaiah My husband had to go to work as there were things that he had to be there for. He left about 7:40am. At 8:05am, I was lying on my bed and having calmed down, I was reading my bible. I [...]

Photo by kudomomo A Warning: As I mentioned in Miscarriage Basics, the main reason I have done this series is to share my experiences and Isaiah’s story so that hurting women can read it, and perhaps be helped in the way that I was. I am thankful and grateful to the brave souls who opened [...]

Photo by kudomomo As I mentioned yesterday, this is a sensitive and difficult topic. To my sweet (and expecting) or sensitive readers, you may wish to skip this series. While I believe it is important to be informed to a certain extent, we need to be so careful that our fear or concern over the [...]

Photo by kudomomo This series is not written by a grief counsellor, a doctor, nurse and any other professional. It’s written by a mother, whose heart was broken and has healed. It’s been 3 years and, at times, I still weep for my little one. What I share here is what helped and worked for [...]