How I am choosing to celebrate Mother’s day when all I have done is miscarry

Miscarriage is really common in my family.

For me, no baby I conceived lived beyond 8 weeks. So Mother’s Day has been a very tender day for me. I have walked with this tender spot for years now, watching how the week before Mother’s Day, I feel fine, only to be sideswiped by the feelings of grief and loss by Friday night. I then…