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Miscarriage: The Silent Sorrow

Posted on January 27th, 2012

Every time I turn around another glamorous celebrity is expecting a baby.

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My Little Lemonheads: Twin To Twin Transfusion Syndrome

Posted on September 30th, 2011

Because I was silently congratulating myself for producing something large (all my life I’d been critiqued for my non-athletic frame, my toothpick-like arms and legs), I nearly missed the doctor’s concern.

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He Was Born Still: Fetal Death In Utero

Posted on January 21st, 2011

Because of this I have changed. I did not want to change, I liked who I was, but I did anyway. All the self help books I have read told me this would happen and they were right. I am a different person because my baby died.

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Miscarriage: The Quiet Club

Posted on April 17th, 2010

To my utter amazement, there is no medical term for miscarriage. In fact, my medical history now includes the word abortion, for lack of a better term. This classification completely stunned me the first time I read it. Right or wrong, I did not in any way choose for this to happen.

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Labor Day: A Delivery

Posted on January 11th, 2010

I’ve never disliked Irishmen. In fact being a born Newfoundlander, the lilting accent and ruddy faced smiles of Dublin make me feel more at home than I usually do on the American mainland. There is one Irishman, however, towards whom I‘ve recently developed a decided antipathy. His name is Murphy.

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