The last one reminds me of this beautifull statue "the child that was never born". I lost a child too. My first. She died 2 weeks before her due date. You are right. It will never be like before, I will never be like before. Its a devastating experience.

My mom had a miscarriage. I was supposed to have an older sister. She doesnt talk about it and im scared of making her sad.

It’s so beautiful. Having lost a baby 6 days after birth, you never really recover from the loss. You have captured the heartbreak so intensely

This is so heartbreaking, thank you for your amazing post

Joanne, my deepest sympathy to you and your extended family, so many people do not realise the reverberations of a still birth, in my case our daughter's death caused her 15 year old brother to go off the rails for 2 years - so much so I feared I would bury him too, and her younger brother - aged 5 at the time of her birth manifested anxiety and depression in his teens and still has trouble. You may think that well, maybe both boys were headed that way anyway, but my eldest had so looked forward to the arrival of his sister that he had told friends at school, and when she died, I received the most amazing phone calls from his friends calling to offer us sympathy. Teens actually do get it. In the same kindy class as my 5 year old, there was another family just like us, but they chose not to try for another child. Choosing to have another child was the hardest best thing I ever did for 2 years later we brought our last child into the world. Thank you for your art.

I'm sorry for your loss and what you went through and continue to endure. Thank you for posting this beautiful yet painful part of your life.

Thank you for sharing these images you work it's beautiful . And to the mother , is very brave bringing these taboo AND IT'S VERY INSPIRING TO EVERY PERSON THAT HAVE LOST SOMEONE..

oh man... i cannot even imagine how this must feel... keeping the baby in memory like that is so wholesome, yet it breaks my heart.. i'm really sorry..

Ugh. I am pregnant and it started off as twins. One didn't make it. I had to watch on the ultrasound each time I got a checkup as it slowly disappeared. Worst feeling ever. Unless you live it, people don't realize how it impacts you. Thanks for talking about this. Honestly, I feel like current culture tries to pressure us not to mourn miscarriages and stillborns openly because then it acknowledges the mother/unborn child bond that exists. The pro-choice movement is almost militant about claiming their is no bond and it doesn't effect the woman. In doing so it completely undermines and delegitamizes OUR experience and grief. It's cruel.

When I worked in the microbiology dept of my local hospital I got a true sense of how often this actually occurs. I think the worst part was that when I came to have my own child, and at antenatal class they asked about our fears of childbirth. I raised my hand and said my biggest fear was stillbirth or neonatal death. The midwife would not discuss it in the class and told me if I wanted to talk about it I'd have to wait until everyone else had gone

When since has child loss been a Taboo?