by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Products

Loss is a very present reality in the world of giving birth and raising children. The statistics say one in four women experience a miscarriage. I've experienced one and it was heartbreaking. I remember the same out-of-body reaction I had when I got in a car accident. Something had been set in motion that I couldn't control and I came out on the other side changed.
How do you remember a pregnancy" How do you remember a baby lost at 5 weeks (like mine) or at 18 weeks (like my friend) or a stillbirth, an infant, or a child" An embryo that did not implant during an IVF treatment" A friend of mine recently went through a failed adoption -- don't tell me that her mother's heart wasn't breaking. All of these dangling pieces of our family trees. Where do they go" I asked a few momma friends how they remember their lost ones. So many responded with stories of their loss(es) and how they memorialized them. Here are a few of their suggestions coupled with my own.
1. Jewelry
Many mamas shared that they wear something, whether it be a necklace, a bracelet or a ring. It might be a birthstone, an engraved birthdate, a picture, or even a tiny urn for ashes. There are many artistic and personalized directions this kind of keepsake could go.
"I wear an urn necklace with her in it. Its my fidget spinner. For probably a year I carried her Urn in my purse...It's a heart. Says always on my heart," says loss mom Kira F.
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