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This summer's story of the orca whale grieving her calf evoked powerful emotions in the humans who watched her. People everywhere are marveling at the innate connection that this whale has with her offspring. It is nature in its most pure and simple form. I agree. As a grieving mother, my heart bursts forward at the…
Continue reading ➞ “Let Us Be The Whale”–A Grieving Mother’s Request
It was almost 9:00 at night when I was admitted to the hospital. An hour later and I had been visited by doctors from at least four different departments. There was the doctor from Maternal-Fetal Medicine who was there to give me the Cliff-Notes on preeclampsia and explain how shitty I was going to feel on…
Continue reading ➞ Enough With The Silence–We Need To Talk About Stillbirth
On February 22, 2016 our daughter, Dorothy Grace Helena Whalen was stillborn. This is a continuation of her story. When I transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, everything came with me--large plastic bags stuffed with clothing, haphazardly stacked books and magazines, a jumble of flower arrangements. All of this traveled on a large, noisy cart as I was rushed from labor…
Continue reading ➞ My Stillborn Baby Still Has A Birth Story
On February 22, 2016 our daughter, Dorothy Grace Helena Whalen was stillborn. This is the continuation of her story. The shock and devastation of losing Dorothy had numbed me. No longer was I aware of the experience of my own body. I knew Dorothy was gone, that she had died, but I was not yet aware of how sick…
Continue reading ➞ My Baby Died, Please Don’t Let Me Die Too
On February 22, 2016 our daughter, Dorothy Grace Helena Whalen was stillborn. This is her story. They were ready to send me home. So, they were going to send me home and have me visit the hospital daily for monitoring. I was on board. I felt fine. Dorothy was doing well, and I imagined it would be best…