Stories of Loss & Hope

Share Your Story

Story sharing is a powerful tool. It can be a healing exercise for the person sharing and can create or strengthen connections within a community.

When RPLA's co-founders began sharing their story, the response was immediate and remarkable. So many people reached out with messages of support or to relate their own experience with infertility or loss. Megan and Ben will continue to share their story, but as an organization, RPLA wants to begin highlighting other voices from within the community.

We would be honored to share your story.

We intend to share these stories on our website and social media pages. We will build out this page like a blog; adding new stories as we receive them. We chose the image above to look like a quilt. Together we hope to weave a shared narrative that will honor our pain, celebrate our strength, and remind us that we are not alone.

To contribute a personal story or anecdote to RPLA please complete the Google form here or below. You can share as much or as little as you like - a moment, a memory, a full account, or advice for other women.

We know the process of writing can be a challenge, so below are some prompts to help get you started.

Writing prompts

If you have a partner, tell us about him/her. When did you meet, how and when did you decide to build your family?
Tell us about your pregnancies? How did they feel emotionally? Physically? Were your feelings different for your first pregnancy compared to subsequent pregnancies?
Tell us about your losses. Did you do anything to recognize or memorialize your losses? If so, what did you do?
What was the most caring thing you did for yourself during your process of grieving?
Tell us about something a friend or family member did that really helped support your grief? What was it? Why was it helpful?
Do you have children now? If so, tell us about them. How has your life changed since having a child? How did the experience of repeat miscarriage change your outlook on parenthood?
Are you still trying for a child? If so, what you are doing to motivate yourself to keep trying?
Have you chosen to move on from trying to conceive? How did you come to that decision?
If you could go back in time and visit yourself before or during your miscarriage(s), what advice would you tell yourself? What messages would you have for other women?

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Stories of Loss and Hope

Share Your Story

Writing prompts

Story Submission Form