Aloha my name is Stacie and I am "mom" to 4 beautiful children. This site is began as the journey through my 5th pregnancy which I referred to as our "Unexpected Blessing." But it's also become a site about loss, dealing with miscarrige, renewed hope, and the road beyond this challenge in life.
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Wow - I almost forgot! October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month with October 15th marking Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day in the United States. You know what I learned today? […]
So I looked at one of my pregnancy tickers today and I am now down to double digits as far as number of days to go! I’m just about in the 3rd trimester. I can’t believe how quickly it’s going! At one point I felt like things were slowing down (right around […]
There are a lot of comments made to women who have a lot of children. People say things like “Don’t you have cable?” Or they look at a pregnant women that has a bunch of little ones and ask, “You know how that’s happening right?” While it’s difficult for some to understand why a family […]
It’s stories like this that force you to put your world in perspective. Here’s the story of a mom who brought her beautiful son into the world this week.
Her son was overdue. She posted on a message board in her Due Date Club that she was going in to be induced. She was a little […]
This has been a tough week. Last week we received news that my SIL was having some complications with pregnancy. We flew up there about a week ago to be there with her (she lives out of state). We were there the day she delivered her son, but he was born still at 23 1/2 […]
No, this is not for me. But you know how they say that when you are strong enough to possible endure one more loss, you are ready to TTC again? Well, I have tried again, I am pregnant again and things are going as well as they can at this point. I’m only 7w4d, BUT […]
I’ve been *almost* thinking of looking for baby names. I had names already picked out for a girl last time. For a boy, DH wants to go with the same name our other son has, and he has, and his dad has. *sigh* I don’t really want to do that, but for […]