The Good Mourning Mother-By Rachel Fitzgerald
How Common is Child Loss?
How Common is Child Loss?
Too common. Premature death among youth, especially from preventable causes, is an enormous loss. Children and adolesce...
When Your Child Dies-Living in a world that is not my Home
“The mourners call echoes through the bones of those who grieve, inflicting a fierce response.”
When Your Child Dies-9 Years of Grief
“God found him, and sat there with him in that freezing cold snow, as he wept for his son.”
Her "Birth" Day that Never Came-Remembering a Baby that Dies
"Our most precious things can be taken in an instant, no one is immune to tragedy."
"When Will My Body Know, My Baby is Dead"
"When will the truth catch up with me, and what will happen when all of me knows, that my baby is dead."
First Facebook Post as a Child Loss Parent
"Please be patient with us and pray for strength and understanding, this was completely unexpected, we are heart broken and hurting."
The Good Mourning Mother-Introduction
"In the middle of this grief I retired as an ER nurse and founded a Memorial Company-Weathered Raindrop. This is my story."
Seasoned Grief - A Memorial Message from a Grieving Mother of 2 Children
"I had held the hands of the dying and comforted those left behind. I’d heard the desperate screams from mothers and soft wail from fathers as they stood holding their dead child, for the last moments and here I was holding mine."
Rachel Fitzgerald
How old is my child in Heaven?
For years now I have felt no need to share publicly on what has most certainly brought the very most peace through my children’s deaths. My closest friends have heard bits and pieces but this part of my journey has not been something I’ve been willing to share. Until today.