Dear Kate,
Just over 20 years ago, I was just like you. I was fresh off the roller coaster of infertility and adopting a baby girl. Open adoption was new and I was all in. The idea of it was spectacular, inclusive, loving, but my motives were so centered on myself, my expectations and...
I watched a toll road being added on to the highway near my house. Months and months of construction and lots of promises of quick completion. I run a small non-profit. My time is rarely worth paying the extra 5 to 10 bucks to get somewhere 10 minutes faster. As the toll road went in, I...
Many hospitals are well equipped to handle intense grief – ranging from the earliest neonatal losses to the death of an elderly person who has lived a long and full life.
But what about the ambiguous loss that occurs for mothers who place their living babies in the arms of another?...
