{"quotes":[{"text":"Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.","author":"Jody Cantrell Dyer","tags":["adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-infertility","amazon","birth-father","birth-mother","birth-parents","domestic-infant","expense","expensive","family","grief-inspirational-bereavement","infertility","kindle","miscarriage","newborn-adoption","open-adoption","open-mind","openness","paperwork","parenting","the-eye-of-adoption"],"id":46249,"author_id":"Jody+Cantrell+Dyer"},{"text":"Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.","author":"Christina Greer","tags":["binge-eating-disorder","child-loss","food-addiction","high-risk-pregnancy","infertility","miscarriage","motherhood","optimism","pcos","pregnancy-loss","recovery-from-grief"],"id":50904,"author_id":"Christina+Greer"},{"text":"...Hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.","author":"Natalie Brenner","tags":["christian-living","encouraging","god","hope","hopeful","hopeless","infertility","miscarriage","trusting-god","vulnerable"],"id":152195,"author_id":"Natalie+Brenner"},{"text":"A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.","author":"R.J. Gonzales","tags":["birth-complications","death","loss","loss-of-a-baby","miscarriage","sad","sadness","tragedy"],"id":188598,"author_id":"R.J.+Gonzales"},{"text":"The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["death","healing","love","miscarriage","solidarity","suffering"],"id":227523,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to 'glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["babyloss","death","grief","grieving","loss","miscarriage","perinatal-death","sids","stillbirth"],"id":243942,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman—a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy—a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["birth","gestation","miscarriage","pregnancy","pregnant","safe-pregnancy"],"id":244581,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"So many women come to me saying, “I have lost too,and this one, and this one”. So many embryos retreatto flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don’t tell me that itwill happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.","author":"Zoë Brigley","tags":["birth","infertility","miscarriage"],"id":258271,"author_id":"Zo%C3%AB+Brigley"},{"text":"Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.","author":"Katherine Longshore","tags":["blame","miscarriage"],"id":269296,"author_id":"Katherine+Longshore"},{"text":"Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.","author":"K. Howard Joslin","tags":["character","faith","miscarriage","trust"],"id":297951,"author_id":"K.+Howard+Joslin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}