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Perinatal Loss 6: Delivery Day! Delivery day arrived!  We had planned to have a private birth with just Todd and I.   Instead, we welcomed my entire family into the delivery room; we didn’t know IF she would ever even take a breath.  We wanted to make sure that they didn’t miss it if she did.  […]

I spent the evenings painting murals in her nursery knowing that I needed to be working on a nursery, even if she never came home to see it.  We chose to decorate with Pooh bear, believing that if we had other children we would share their sister’s spirit with them through the image of the

Our days took on a deeper meaning from the moment we learned that our darling little one would not live outside the womb.  The clock seemed to slow down and all of the little daily tasks washed away so that only the here and now floated to the surface of our days.  I returned to