National Infertility Awareness Week will be observed from April 23-29th, 2023. This week seeks to bring awareness to an extremely common yet all too often overlooked experience. No person feels prepared to confront infertility and the grief, anxiety, and fear that may follow the infertility diagnosis. At Wildflower, we are committed to helping you navigate…
Perinatal Loss
Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Navigating the Journey as a Couple
The impact of loss, whether it be through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, is immense. This grieving process can often feel lonely both for you as an individual and for you and your partner as a couple. Differences in how you process the experience individually within your relationship have the potential to exacerbate these feelings…
The Loneliness of Perinatal Loss
October is the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. This formal designation is meaningful and important as it lets parents who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss know that their loss is not invisible. Grief can feel incredibly lonely — the whole world around you is still buzzing with its steady, everyday activity…
October Is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
Experiencing a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss brings on unimaginable grief. Parents not only find themselves mourning the loss of their child, but also that of their dreams, fantasies, hopes for their family, identity, and new social status. Parents often feel lonely and misunderstood in their mourning. Our society tends to have a short attention…
Miscarriage: Did it happen to me, or to us?
The devastation of a pregnancy loss can impact more than just your hopes for a child. It can challenge your relationship with your body, your friends, society, and, unfortunately quite often, your relationship with your partner. When a couple decides to start or grow a family, they are united. The discussion is collaborative, the process…
