When a Pregnancy Follows a Loss
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Following her daughter’s still birth, one woman faces an emotional rollercoaster of grief, love and uncertainty as she finds herself pregnant again
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She was a beautiful baby, with long black eyelashes and big dark lips. I will never know the sound of her coo or the color of her eyes. They never opened.
My first child was born dead.
Stillborn.
She moved and grew into a healthy child inside of me for 40 weeks and 4 days, only to become silent in the hours that I slept before her quiet birth.
Seven months after my daughter was stillborn,
