I hope these words help others as they’ve helped me🤍🙏🏼🌈

So many women attribute the loss of a baby to feeling like they’ve lost a piece of themselves. One day without warning, you’re jolted from feeling a happy fullness, to the strange emptiness of loss.

Often times with miscarriage, especially earlier on, it’s easy to feel out of place, disconnected from those around you and from what your next steps are for your day to day or life overall.

Maybe it was too early for many people to know you were pregnant, now there’s no baby to show and care for, and your pain gets overlooked. Or worse, your pain is downplayed or disregarded as being necessary, normal, valid. There’s not a lot of emphasis on the importance of grieving all stages of miscarriage, and that hurts the heart as much as it inhibits the healing process.

For a long time I felt like there was no concrete way to honor the baby I lost, no way to create a lasting memory, so that I could move forward with healing my body and mind. Then, one day, science proved what my heart had already told me. I listened to a lecture about Microchimerism, and my heart and mind received a gift I never thought possible: my baby was still with me, and always will be.

The phenomenon of microchimerism states that during the 1st trimester, the baby’s cells cross the placenta and pass to the mother’s bloodstream, they circulate in her body and embed themselves in her tissues. Fetal cells are pluripotent like stem cells, meaning they can grow into different kinds of tissues and also help in tissue repair. After these cells embed themselves in the mother’s tissue, they grow into the same surrounding tissue by chemical interaction with the neighboring cells.

So, no matter what, you’ll always carry your babies with you in mind, spirit and BODY, and when your body needs help healing, those baby cells will activate to take care of their mama. 🙏🏼❤️