International pregnancy and infant loss awareness day- 15th October.

[Beka]

Please take time today to visit our article about International pregnancy and infant loss awareness day (http://www.spiffymoms.com/forums/view.php?pg=babyloss)

Today countless women and families world wide will be acknowledging little lives lost that meant to world to many yet seldom recieve the recognition they so rightly deserve.

Tonight at 7pm there will be a "wave of light" around the globe, candles lit in memory and in support. Please take the time to be kind to yourselves and to think of others who may have been through the pain of losing a baby.

Please feel free to post any prayers, tributes, poems of support or even just talk here and share. I know for me a huge part of healing was publicly acknowledging I hadn't just lost a pregnancy, I had lost a very much loved and wanted member of our family and I truly feel such important emotions shouldn't be kept hidden under the dated taboo which surrounds infant death and miscarriage.

Thinking of you all today :squeeze

(and a thank you to Lisa for posting about this on chitter chat too )

[Beka]

For Deacon James Wilding,

It is so very strange to look at your new little brother and realise it's been so very long since we lay in the hospital and they asked us did we understand what they were saying when they said you had no heartbeat, it seems like yesterday that I felt so very all alone. I feel blessed to have been given the chance to truly appreciate how precious pregnancy is and how very wonderful each of your siblings I have here with me are, I'm fairly certain that at the time I was losing sight of not only how lucky I am to have them but to have a husband like your dad too.

I had to rebuild and now, 2 and a half years later, I'm moving on, never forgetting but moving forwards because I have so very much to be thankful for, so many don't get to know what it is like to be a mother in this world once let alone as I am able to enjoy daily and so I do- your big sister is 10 tomorrow and I've enjoyed 10 great years being able to call myself mother.

I'm not angry anymore, I don't feel cheated anymore, I just feel ready to move on.

Very much thinking of you today.

[Lisa]

Beka, I'm thinking of you today. Huge hugs and huge hugs to others that I am missing who are a part of this group.