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Infant And Pregnancy Loss Awareness

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Every October brings many emotions for me, sadness being the main one. October just so happens to be Infant and pregnancy loss awareness month. I can connect on a very personal level to this because I myself have suffered a pregnancy loss. Although this month is meant to educate the public on miscarriage and infant loss, I spend most of the month thinking, even more than usual, what life would have been like if I were to have a happy healthy baby. The emotions this experience has brought on to me are by no means new, but for some reason I still have not learned how to control them. I continue to let my grieving episodes affect nearly every aspect of my life. Not to say all that has come from my loss has been negative; I have become even more

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