If your due date passed

What did you do to get thru the day? I have been really sad leading up to this day and now that its here I just don"t know what to do with myself.

I was pregnant for such a short time< but my heart is breaking today. I can't help to think of what might have been and how different my life would be on this day. Instead I have suffered a second miscarriage and continue to try to get pregnant and have another child.

I found this and thought i'd share it, you may have seen it before. I really love the last line.......



A Mother's Prayer/Affirmation After Miscarriage

In this time of loss I call upon my spirit within to guide me to my strength so that I may find peace and completion.

I will use this strength to demand of myself and others my need to grieve completely, for this will be my first step in healing.

During my time of grief I will seek guidance not only from my inner spirit but from loving persons who may offer wisdom and comfort.

I need to understand that the soul as well as the physical body needs healing and to pay attention to this. I will learn to accept that the soul may never heal completely.

I will learn to live not in fear and once again see beauty in my world and purpose in my existence.

In spite of my new knowledge that things happen that cannot be controlled, I must call upon the places within me that tell me I do have control over much of my life and use this control to aid my healing.

Let me recognize the gift in my ability to conceive and carry life however briefly.

Let me take joy in my ability to love so deeply and desire to nurture a soul unbeknownst to me.

Let me find healing in the belief that this soul knew my love for it and that that love helped it to pass to another place.

Let me honor this short life not only with my love but in finding meaning in its existence.

Let me recognize this meaning in not only my ability to survive, but in my fullest appreciation of all the moments motherhood will bring me, along with my deeper compassion and sisterhood to other women who?ve experienced loss.

Let a part of this soul be reflected in the spirit of my future children, born or adopted, so that I may know it through them.

I will listen to and trust the place in my deepest heart that tells me I will once again be reunited with this soul and will fulfil the need to hold it in my arms.

I will help myself to feel comfort in the knowledge that there is a star in heaven that belongs to me.

by Stacey Dinner-Levin

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I'm so sorry
but I thank you for posting this.. my due date from my first M/C would have been this Sat --and i am feeling just as sad as you are. I hope that you can get through this day and I hope that God blesses you with a miracle soon

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I'm so sorry
but I thank you for posting this.. my due date from my first M/C would have been this Sat --and i am feeling just as sad as you are. I hope that you can get through this day and I hope that God blesses you with a miracle soon

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I am so sorry, I know how heartbreaking it is to past your due date and to still be trying. Tomorrow will be the exact date that I had a d&C.... it is just so hard to still be struggling with this. I pray we all have our miracle soon.

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i am so sorry again Christine.
i know the due dates are the hardest to get by. i hope you have some closure now that it passed. you know i am always here for you!!

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i am sorry for ur loss. My first due date was the same week as my wedding anniversary (december). when i got pregnant again in october i was thrilled i had something to look forward to .. i mc that baby too thanksgiving week.
It was the hardest thing to go thru, but somehow we get thru it...

sorry for ur loss

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so sorry ladies