This is a tapestry of personal stories
A huge thank you to all that have shared their fabric and stories for this project. If you would like to submit your own story, we will continue to post them here as this project continues to grow.
What started this project
Read Carole’s Personal Story
Latest Stories
-
Brave and Also Terrified
When we started trying to get pregnant, I was told not to worry. I was young, healthy and it would just take a bit… Read more
-
Lifting the Veil
I hesitated to take part in this project because I have actively stuffed those intensely painful emotions so deep down inside I partly felt… Read more
-
All The Feelings, With a Side of Guilt
Throughout the many months my husband and I spent trying to conceive, my two full-term pregnancies, the time surrounding a miscarriage in between those… Read more
-
The Fear of Not Getting It Right
I didn’t think I had a story but the further I read the more my memory recalled what I stuffed away in order to… Read more
-
Don’t Take Advice From Someone Who Hasn’t Walked the Path
I have yet to bring a child earth-side so I can only speak from my experience of the loss of my first pregnancy and… Read more
-
The Joy in Between
When I was nearly 12 weeks pregnant, I started bleeding heavily one night. Right at the point we were starting to feel ready to… Read more
-
A Reasonable Hope
At a checkup at 31 weeks I was told they couldn’t find my son’s heartbeat. I texted my husband at work to tell him… Read more
-
120 Days of Summer
“Don’t research. Make this decision from the heart,” the doctor said. How can my husband and I possibly listen to this advice when we… Read more
-
A Not-So-Perfect Story
I have two teenage daughters and as a mother with introverted tendencies, I still remember intense feelings of exhaustion, overwhelm, and frustration of trying… Read more
Connecting Threads 