it's been almost a year since i woke up thinking i'd get another day to grow you only to find that your heart had stopped beating and you were already leaving my body. it really doesn't get any easier as the days and months pass. it hurts and i miss you. and today is a day that brings up so many emotions and that welling feeling in me that i have to wait a very long forever to hold you in my arms. today is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness day. i will scroll through my instagram and facebook at random moments today and see many posts about a baby they only ever carried in their hearts and not their arms. or a child they once kissed on their forehead but now only through the glass of a picture frame that holds an image of who they'll never watch grow to be. today will no doubt be tough.
but today is also exciting because i have collab'd with an awesome mama in creating a tee specifically for you, for all of those other sweet angel babies out there and for all of the mothers out there who have been stifled by the stigma of society to minimize their loss and aren't quite in a place where they can call themselves a mother because of that. whether you lived and breathed or your heart only ever beat under mine, i am still a mother to you hazel mae. and we're releasing this still a mother tee today.
i'm pretty proud of this little tee for a lot of reasons. number one because it honors you, and also honors all of those angel babies and their mothers, but also because a portion of the proceeds will go to a non-profit organization that assists loss mothers/families. which is so important because we, as a society, need to be able to spread awareness of pregnancy and infant loss and provide counseling and resources to parents and families who have suffered through the journey of loss; i hope this tee can contribute to that. your short time growing in my womb means so much more than just today.
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if you have been touched by loss and would like to order a shirt, you can head to the wild ones shop to order. jamie and i are also hosting a giveaway for a still a mother tee, which you can enter on my instagram. you can also give jamie's shop a follow on instagram if you'd like, because she has other amazing tees that make a stand for empowering women through their journey of motherhood.
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