August 11, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Get Me Off This Rollercoaster!

When you lose a child, it is not just the loss of the child as he or she is, but the loss of the future, of […]
August 4, 2021

Simplified: Breastfeeding and Pumping: A Journey in Life, Loss, Pain, and Trauma

As the pumping sessions went on, I felt like a failure, a fraud. Not only had I not carried this child, but now I could not […]
August 3, 2021

Losing Our Daughter Opened Our Eyes to Families in Crisis

Why were the options only two-fold: either work and risk harm to mom and baby or don’t work and risk financial ruin, evictions, shutoffs, debt?
July 23, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: A Different Kind of Big Sister

Those nine days with Colette were a time of imagining what she would be like, what parts of me and what parts of Mark and what […]
July 23, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Longing for Normalcy

Nothing about pregnancy after loss is normal. It is not normal to hold your breath every ultrasound, every heartbeat check, to spend most of the pregnancy […]
July 20, 2021

Parenting After Loss: One Onesie, Many Emotions

While it felt like such a victory to be in that place, to see our little guy wearing the physical remembrance of our dreams, of our […]
July 12, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Playing the What If Game

Yes, I realize now that it seems dramatic that a global pandemic came to the U.S. as a result of my knitting, but as a loss […]
July 12, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Let’s Connect

Just like all of our plans have been derailed at this unprecedented time in history, we have struggled to find those connections, those things that keep […]
July 12, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Pivoting Again

I have found myself strangely calm about everything over the last few weeks. But, even that feeling of calm creates a sense of panic. Why am […]

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