by Amy Collier | Jan 25, 2019 | Opinion, Stories
by Margot Finn Do you know what it is like to live in the same house as a room that you intended for a baby who died? God help you if you’ve already set up a crib and changing table. Do you disassemble them yourself in a sobbing rage late one night, thinking...
by Amy Collier | Dec 6, 2018 | Anencephaly, D&E, Diagnoses, Neural Tube Defects, Stories
I was little more than life support for her and within minutes or possibly hours from birth, she would die, without any sense of me or anything around her. By Sara This is my story of ending a wanted pregnancy. I’m putting in lots of details because it’s...
by Amy Collier | Sep 25, 2018 | Induction/L&D, Other Diagnoses, Stories
This is Not Mild By Anna As you read this story you might notice that the tone I’ve chosen is a little less conventional than most. This is the way I want to share my story: with a dash of humour, curse words, and sarcasm. Grab a glass of wine, unless you are...
by Amy Collier | Sep 25, 2018 | Congenital Diaphramatic Hernia (CDH), D&E, Stories
So much information was being explained to us. But I only heard the scary keywords: deformed, suffering, uncertainty of survival, termination. This was the most difficult news of our life. By Lillian Adam and I have been together for eight years, happily married for...
by Amy Collier | Jul 6, 2018 | Congenital Heart Defects, D&E, Diagnoses, Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, Stories
After days of crying, sleepless nights, and considering quality of life/life expectancy issues, we decided to let our baby boy with HRHS go. By Catt We found out we were having a baby boy late last year. Since I was 38 and wanted another child close in age to our...
