Hi! I'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact me with questions, prayer requests, pregnancy loss or pregnancy after loss resources, or anything else. Please forgive me if I don't get back to you right away, you have my permission to pester me until I do!
If you would like to send me an email, you can do so at messywifeblessedlife@gmail.com. I can also be found on Twitter at @Mandi_Richards and Facebook at A Blog About Miscarriage.
Hi there! Just found your blog today-and I am so glad that I did! I am going through my first miscarriage and am not finding the support I need from those around me. Reading your blogs has already proven to be very helpful! Thank you for being so honest!
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ReplyDeleteI found your blog today and wanted to pass on a short film (almost eight minutes) my daughter conceived and created. It had 20,000 hits in four days, and speaks beautifully to the loss of a baby. Please take the time to view it. God is using it and I hope you will post it. May daughter is Vanessa McKellar. https://vimeo.com/134455481
Hello, Thank you for sharing your story. I have had three miscarriages in the past year. I have one beautiful little girl that I carried to term in May 2014, and everyone keeps telling me at least you have one child. I am very grateful for my little girl, but that does not cover or erase the pain from losing my three other children. Praying for God's peace, grace, and strength each day.
ReplyDeleteI find comments like that ("At least you have one child" "Be grateful for the child you do have" etc.) to be so strange. I always compare it to when someone loses a parent - would you ever tell that person "Be grateful you still have one parent living"? Of course not! You can mourn the death of one one person while still cherishing the others who are living! I'm sorry you've had to deal with those comments and I will be praying for you. It sounds like your story is similar to mine with recurrent miscarriages after having your first - it's quite an unexpected shock, isn't it? I hope you find healing. God bless!
DeleteSomeone I know on a Catholic women's forum found out earlier this week at her 20 week scan that her (first) baby had passed. She has been in the hospital for 24 hours now, and the induction is going very, very slowly. Will you include her in your prayers?
ReplyDeleteMy miscarriage started this morning and I have had blood clots the whole day. Has anyone else experienced this?
ReplyDeleteHi I would like to share a poem I wrote for my son Zion whom was released for a greater calling last week Wednesday at 5 months.
ReplyDeleteTo my Zion..
You are strong and everything Iam not.
You bring joy that will never be forgot. Reminding me how solid love makes you, stronger than any rock.
Words cannot express the gift I have been blessed with and the happiness I now possess.
The second chance, to reap the plant of a good harvest, in this world of darkness makes the hardest obstacle seem more than possible.
Suddenly, iam lost to no longer be able to be so motherly, denied the opportunity to love abundantly, so suddenly, and so unluckily, I am lost, alone, to face a reality that makes it hard to breathe, left alone feeling incomplete,begging and praying this is just a bad daydream.
And there I lie, striped of my self esteem, torn apart in volitile and silent screams. You were so strong but this was not the place were u belonged, that's why this bond could no longer be prolonged.
Thank you for your love that you gave, liberating me from the normal feeling of being trapped in a cave, forcibly having to pretend to be brave l. Enslaved to the familiar cold wave of my life's experience- disappointment and rejection, the product of one constantly unloved.
But now you have gone to share your love from above, and now I realise you were a gift from above anything but the definition of me unloved.
Till we meet my Zion, my son, my strength, you are now my reason to go to any and every length, the reason to correct all of my imperfections, known and unknown to me as I reflect on the rejection of our shared conception.
Till we meet my one day my love, my son, that day when we are ready, on that day when I no longer wish your loss to be undone.. The day I get to see you run, into my arms where you belong. The day we are reunited, filled with excitement, and suddenly reminded why, for a time we had to be divided.
I miss you and your exhuming love, the ultimate sacrifice given from the Most High from above. You were called away with the greatest task of them all, your purpose was to complete your calling,and prove there is such as an unfailing love, your destiny was to be the definition of what is Truelove.
I miss you even though I am with u and u with me. The significance of your name is proof of your love and strength of which you have bestowed on me, which will last forevermore: Psalm 125:1-2
"Those who trust in the LORD Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people From this time forth and forever."