Honoring the Baby You Lost
If you’ve ever miscarried or lost a baby, you might feel the expectation from the people around you to bounce back or move on. You might even place that expectation on yourself.
Maybe “expectation” isn’t even the right word.
It’s more like, life just continues on like normal with or without you being ready for it. As if your baby or your pregnancy wasn’t real or never happened. Like it was here and now it’s just….gone.
Many moms don’t discuss it. Maybe you’re one that didn’t. You might not have even told anyone you were pregnant “just in case." Maybe the rest of the world doesn’t even know what they don’t know.
What’s important here is not the choices you’ve made to talk about it or not. No one knows what you need better than you.
There is honor and wisdom and love backing up your decision to share or not share your pregnancy, your miscarriage, or the grief and loss you feel when you lose your baby too soon.
But loss is kind of funny like that, isn’t it….the world continues on despite what happened to us or our baby and how we feel about it. And what I want to talk about today is slowing down so we can heal.
How can we possibly slow down in a world that doesn’t stop?
How do we slow down when no one even knows what’s up or what we need?
There are many ways we can do that.
One way I’m discussing today is finding ways to honor and remember your baby.
Maybe you need catharsis or maybe you just need a way to connect with joy rather than sadness when you think of them. It might be something you do once and never again or it might become an annual tradition. Maybe it’s a very private, intimate thing or maybe it’s surrounded by your most important support people. Maybe it’s something you even do publicly with the intent of connecting with others to heal together.
The point is, there are so many ways to do it and there’s no timeline for this. When you’re ready, I want to encourage you to find a way that feels good to you.
Check out this week’s video and transcript below for 21 ideas for ways to honor and remember your baby.
And if you need further support with this--whether it’s help with finding resources in your area or processing your grief together--please know that I am here to help.
WATCH THE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD7mOUsqnkI&w=854&h=480
This video previously aired as a Facebook Live. You can follow Happy With Baby on Facebook to catch all their live videos here.
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