Rainbow Babies, Bonus Books, and the Ugly Cry Queen
When I lost my first baby, I didn’t think at the time I might one day write about it.
I was so alone in the world. I had just quit my job to be a mom. My Bunco group had turned into an endless series of baby showers for its members. That was treacherous territory now. So I quit. I spent my days in solitude.
My husband was bewildered, as many spouses are, at the length and depth and breadth of my grief. I half-heartedly looked for other jobs, but mostly I planted flowers and tried to make peace with something that would never, ever make sense.
By the time I got pregnant with Emily, I was more than a little dead to optimism. There was definitely a point when I started bleeding that I completely gave up hope and assumed she was dead. (Spoiler: she’s a freshman in college now.)
I have a public journal that I kept with her, as by that time my mission to help others who had lost pregnancies was in full swing at