Managing the holidays after loss
So many of you are writing me lately. I don’t mind at all, but I do worry about the sudden increase in despairing moms who have lost their babies during what is supposed to be a happy time of the year....
View ArticleIdeas for Mother’s Day
Oh, what a troubling day this is, especially if you have yet to bring a baby home. One of the reasons I started Casey Shay Press was to come up with ways for us to remember and celebrate our babies,...
View ArticleFear at Christmas
UPDATE: I went ahead and set up a support topic for those who need to find each other over the holiday and talk to other grieving moms-to-be during this very tough time. Feel free to register under any...
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Special e-cards for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is a really tough day for a lot of people. I blog about the holidays all the time (read some here). I know many of you this year were expecting a baby, but tragedy struck, and this...
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Mother’s Day Give Away: Your baby’s name in a movie credit
UPDATE: The three Olsen angels won the movie credit! Over at A Place for Our Angels: Memorials for Miscarriage and Stillbirth Babies, we’re having a HUGE Mother’s Day contest. We’ve already given away...
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Mother’s Day Give Away #1
I know this week is bittersweet for many of us. You’re here because at least one of your sweet babies didn’t make it into your arms. Mother’s Day is forever a mixed blessing for me. My first one, just...
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Mother’s Day Give Away #3
Comment on this post to win a copy of In the Company of Angels: A Memorial Book on Mother’s Day (US holiday, May 13.) This book is designed just like a traditional baby book, but it is meant for our...
View ArticleOn Surviving Mother’s Day
My first Mother’s Day is gone from my memory, fried out, no doubt by several factors. My only baby had died just 10 days before. At church that Sunday, all the Mothers were told to stand, and while I...
View ArticleEvents to Suffer Through
Managing the holidays There’s no doubt, any holiday can be a nightmare after a miscarriage. First there’s the family, who look at you sympathetically and say stupid things while they cluck over your...
View ArticleA Day for Dads
Certainly, dads grieve differently from moms. I hear from the occasional dad after the loss of a baby. Usually he is worried about mom, wanting to know what he can do or say to help. It’s unusual,...
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