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glow in the woods glow in the woods about what is this place the contributors forum the library how to stop lactation when there is no baby how to help a friend through babyloss how to plan a baby s funeral on the bookshelf blog front page the archives about what is this place the contributors forum the library how to stop lactation when there is no baby how to help a friend through babyloss how to plan a baby s funeral on the bookshelf blog front page the archives for babylost mothers and fathers for babylost mothers and fathers about what is this place the contributors forum the library how to stop lactation when there is no baby how to help a friend through babyloss how to plan a baby s funeral on the bookshelf blog front page the archives featured june 15 2026 kathy seasons of grief part 3 june 15 2026 kathy grief moves into the domestic into small rituals and accidents of memory it is there in snowflakes taped to windows in half birthdays in flashes of joy pierced by absence read more june 15 2026 kathy may 11 2026 jo anne i see you may 11 2026 jo anne so i want to say this to anyone who understands this kind of ongoing loss you are not meant to force yourself into distance from it you don t have to make it smaller to make it bearable let it be what it is let it be as deep as it actually is read more may 11 2026 jo anne april 1 2026 guest writer hermit crab april 1 2026 guest writer i realize i am the hermit crab in this story i am in the darkness of a shell folded like a pastry i am turning away against the light and the author looking in but i am also choosing a house from the pearly rubble the sea has brought me and continuing along the tideline read more april 1 2026 guest writer march 5 2026 guest writer on loss and love again and again march 5 2026 guest writer you were like a flower not yet unfurled remarkable in all your promise tender in all your delicacy you were like a dream i awoke from too early read more march 5 2026 guest writer february 9 2026 guest writer keening february 9 2026 guest writer when i think of your music of the music that connects me to you i think of the word from old irish to keen to lament loudly over the dead there is a part of me that s always keening for you and that part longs to sing to sing as if you were still alive as if you needed me to sing you to sleep to sing you awake to comfort you with my voice read more february 9 2026 guest writer december 31 2025 jo anne little miracles december 31 2025 jo anne if this season feels heavier it is because it is because memory glows brighter against festive lights because silence is louder when joy is expected and still you are here you are remembering you are loving that too is a kind of miracle read more december 31 2025 jo anne december 19 2025 kathy seasons of grief part 2 december 19 2025 kathy my body always knows nothing is more predictable than time but calendars do not share any secrets with grief read more december 19 2025 kathy december 8 2025 guest writer pictures december 8 2025 guest writer we re already getting christmas cards in the mail countless photos of smiling families with healthy alive children i ve stopped opening them we never got a photo of the four of us for a christmas card read more december 8 2025 guest writer november 21 2025 jo anne when the world paints its faces we remember in silence november 21 2025 jo anne only this truth your baby lived your baby is loved your baby is remembered read more november 21 2025 jo anne november 1 2025 kathy seasons of grief autumn november 1 2025 kathy it s just this time of year when everything seems to be taunting me or warning me or consoling me read more november 1 2025 kathy october 10 2025 guest writer ren october 10 2025 guest writer child ren child ren no no ren no ren just the one child and no ren just my son m and no ren i can t figure out what i m checking a box for i authorize payment for my child but not for my ren he s not here he died that means his body does not work anymore i still can t make sense of it what a strange combination of symbols and letters my ren my sweet boy just an echo between parentheses read more october 10 2025 guest writer september 19 2025 guest writer charles wallace a love story september 19 2025 guest writer a lifetime of love more more more not of a living body but of one beyond the physical love felt in the network of cells that remember and ache rocks gathered on the shore reciting these poems simply saying the name charles wallace and i love you it s catching that baby up too read more september 19 2025 guest writer august 27 2025 guest writer telogen effluvium august 27 2025 guest writer you re remembering you re feeling you re disappearing you re thinking you re learning you re listening you re trying you re struggling you re growing you re loving you re crying you re holding you re living read more august 27 2025 guest writer july 14 2025 kathy holding on july 14 2025 kathy it s so much easier to be broken than to sit around waiting and waiting and waiting to break read more july 14 2025 kathy may 27 2025 guest writer hemispheres may 27 2025 guest writer on one side of my heart a deep well of love admiration awe and gratitude for every being that gets to exist how is it that anyone gets to make it out into the world alive what an absolute miracle each life is and then there is the other side of my heart an ever tunneling density of love packed into a black hole that will never be fully received read more may 27 2025 guest writer may 5 2025 nori six years may 5 2025 nori it was as though i was a moon slowly being pulled from an outer orbit to an inner orbit of the planet of grief a flood of tears that began slowly with a trickle then a stream and finally the deluge a predictable order each phase easing me forwards read more may 5 2025 nori april 20 2025 jo anne the quiet room in my heart april 20 2025 jo anne i know too that moving on is not a failure that healing is no betrayal this life this breath is me honoring something sacred and you my almost my always you are still worthy of being missed read more april 20 2025 jo anne march 31 2025 guest writer into the forest i go march 31 2025 guest writer i just wish i could walk and walk and walk and keep walking maybe forever into the mist of an impossibly dense forest on an impossibly steep mountain and then walk some more maybe i will find him there read more march 31 2025 guest writer march 11 2025 kathy springtime lingering on my lips march 11 2025 kathy i breathe into the sound of baby birds calling for their mother and i am reminded that you never will read more march 11 2025 kathy february 24 2025 jennifer more family calculus february 24 2025 jennifer i don t want to imagine a world that he isn t part of not at all but there is no world that they both are alive in and no way my mind can accommodate a version of that world even imaginary so if i imagine her here i imagine him not and it s impossible not to wonder at times like these mundane silly times where i m frustrated that we can t agree and my mind slips off into that world that might have been and more serious times birthdays milestones all the rest what would it have been like if she were here then he wouldn t be read more february 24 2025 jennifer january 27 2025 jo anne grief ages you january 27 2025 jo anne grief doesn t simply change you it undoes you and in the unraveling it asks who you will be now will you let it consume you or will you let it shape you into something raw but resilient broken but somehow beautiful read more january 27 2025 jo anne january 13 2025 nori broken hearted january 13 2025 nori this is how much she loves her daughter enough to rend apart cells from deep within her chest under layers of flesh and bone without even lifting a finger it may look as though she s just sitting and staring at the wall but inside this bloody violent spectacle is unfolding read more january 13 2025 nori december 16 2024 kathy not this time of year again december 16 2024 kathy with heavy hands i rummaged through her little pink box to find her merry christmas garden flag and none of it felt merry read more december 16 2024 kathy december 2 2024 jennifer unknowable december 2 2024 jennifer but then sometimes you see all at once how much more loss has piled up over time the loss of all the potential girls and women she could have been might have known might have loved and the countless unknown people who have lost something by never knowing never having been loved by that girl that woman who might have been read more december 2 2024 jennifer november 21 2024 glow in the woods grieving online november 21 2024 glow in the woods this week s post is a kitchen table post where we settle in together with a cup of something warm and have a chat in this post we re thinking about how online spaces have been part of our experiences of grieving come sit if you like we ll throw another log on the fire make you some tea and listen if you want to share read more november 21 2024 glow in the woods november 4 2024 guest writer the appointed time november 4 2024 guest writer she went in less than fifteen minutes after we said our good byes she waited for us i guess she knew when read more november 4 2024 guest writer october 20 2024 jo anne my second heartbeat october 20 2024 jo anne somehow in the quiet of it all i ve come to understand that this is how we survive we carry both side by side grief and love loss and life and in the space between we find a way to keep going it s not easy and it s not without its darkness but there s something profoundly human in the persistence in the hope that even in the depths of sorrow life still offers its light read more october 20 2024 jo anne about what is this place the contributors forum the library how to stop lactation when there is no baby how to help a friend through babyloss how to plan a baby s funeral on the bookshelf blog front page the archives glow 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