August 24, 2021

Parenting After Loss: Sibling Photos Look Diffferently But Still Invoke the Same Love

August 11, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Half Fear, Half Bliss

Yes, 20 weeks is halfway through a pregnancy and that is exciting. But, since the last 19 weeks feel like it has been a year, and […]
August 11, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Relief and Joy…Then Panic and Blame

I cried about how the doctor had confirmed my biggest fear—that all of this was, in fact, my fault, that it was my stupid body that […]
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

Commemorating and Remembering Our Losses

For parents who lose a baby, whether during pregnancy, at birth, or within the first year of life, it is often difficult to figure out how […]
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 […]

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