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Miscarriage From the Father’s Perspective
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That is what the story is about. Not a step-by-step accounting of Charlie’s birth or the harrowing potential of a placental abruption, but a look into the horror and the beauty of the unexpected. A little moment hiding within a big event.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Making sense of the devastation of pregnancy loss or infant death is often a lifelong process. It takes time to integrate this tremendous pain and make room for narratives of loss, as hearts are torn asunder.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
If you’ve read my letters to my son, Myles, you know I am madly in love with him, and I love sharing with the world this love I did not get to experience myself. He’s given me a new sense of purpose. (I hate disclaimers, but I feel like I had to set this up for what I’m about to say.)
At the same time, I struggle with how much my marriage changed so... See more
At the same time, I struggle with how much my marriage changed so... See more
Caroline Cala Donofrio • "No One Really Prepares You for the Kind of Math When 1+1=3 "
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what a beautiful way to wrestle with the complexities of parenthood
That is what the story is about. Not a step-by-step accounting of Charlie’s birth or the harrowing potential of a placental abruption, but a look into the horror and the beauty of the unexpected. A little moment hiding within a big event.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
I could not look forward to the moment that might have been, the baby that might have been, but instead felt touched by an entirely new sort of loneliness, which pinched me when I wasn’t looking. But I had Jimmy, so I blinked at him, and smiled when I opened my eyes as he patted his palms on my face, squeezing my grief back into myself and squashin
... See moreClover Stroud • My Wild and Sleepless Nights: The brave, raw Sunday Times bestselling memoir
If grief is love with nowhere to go, I am full of it. Still, I am not sure I want to have a child. My downfall is that I want to live all lives in one, and soon I have to choose one.
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In the three years of TNF, we’ve covered all kinds of topics and I’ve spent a long time wondering exactly this is. I think there’s something special happening here: a group of dads that have congregated to redefine what fatherhood means for them, and to perhaps contribute towards a shift in the wider definition too. But the core of what this might ... See more
Kevin Maguire • How to Raise Tiny Humans Without Losing Your Mind
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