Miscarriage
Miscarriage & Grief
Closure Like time suspended, a wound unmended- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I’ll wonder why. …
Author: Charmel Clough
Charmel Clough is a Kansas City, Missouri transplant loving life in the City of Fountains. Charmel enjoys spending time with her husband Dan and daughters, Adelaide and Roselyn. She found purpose in life when her middle daughter, Emilia, was born asleep at just 33 weeks gestation. Charmel now dedicates her life to giving back to the infant loss community through her family's charitable nonprofit, Emilia's Wings.Project Heal
Capture Your Grief – 2020
Each year a perinatal advocate named CarlyMarie hosts a challenge called CAPTURE YOUR GRIEF to coincide with National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Month. Capture Your Grief is a 31-day photographic challenge. I have been excitedly waiting for CarlyMarie to unveil this years' challenge, but sadly I think this year's challenge has…
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Healing through Grace
Healing Through Grace – The Delzell Family
The Delzell Family Springfield, Nebraska Saturday, January 12, 2019 [caption id="attachment_3797" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Delzell Family[/caption] We are incredibly blessed to have identical twin daughters, McKinna and Mariah. We also nearly lost them to a disease called Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). Our doctor put us on an airplane…
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Healing through Grace
Healing Through Grace – The Clough Family
The Clough Family Kansas City, Missouri Thursday, November 22, 2018 Thanksgiving Day Grace joined our family 3 days ago! We created her with large hopes to help fill the empty void that the loss of a child leaves when a family is longing for their baby. Grace is such…
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Project Heal
Capture Your Grief – 2018
Welcome to Capture Your Grief - 2018. For those of you who are new, Capture Your Grief is a World Wide Community Project designed to help bereaved parents mindfully document their grief experience and discover other ways, perspectives and ideas on healing after the death of a baby or child…
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Pain
One Year Without Emilia
It has been a long and brutal year rediscovering how to live with tremendous feelings of grief, pain, and heartache. I could go on about how much joy Emilia has brought our family - how glad we are to have her in our lives (even though she isn't physically here) -…
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Pregnancy After Loss
Prayer Warriors
Pregnancy after Loss is hard! I never knew just how emotional pregnancy could be until experiencing it again after losing Emilia. Today I am exactly 20 weeks pregnant with my third child. I am learning that as I get further along in this pregnancy, those fears and concerns that have…
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Birthdays in Heaven
Emilia’s First Birthday in Heaven
One year ago today, I was forced to fit an entire lifetime of love and memories into a mere 52 hours with my daughter, Emilia. We managed to say hello and goodbye all in that short amount of time. Emilia's life may have ended in tragedy, but what survived is…
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Pain
Why does it feel like such a lonely journey?
My heart has been heavy these last few days. With Emilia’s Birthday just around the corner, it is only natural that memories of her fill my days a little bit more than usual. Over this past year, I have learned that my journey is far from solitary, even though at…
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Pregnancy After Loss
Two extra stockings, hung with care
[caption id="attachment_2089" align="aligncenter" width="698"] Baby Clough #3 - Due August 2018[/caption] As we hang our stockings this year, our mantle looks a bit different than one would expect. One new stocking hangs in memory of our angel Emilia, and the other in celebration of a new life that has…