Hello! Welcome to Forget Me Not

I'm Katie, I am a full-time working mom and wife. This is my very first blog! I am very excited, anxious, and scared to share my stories. My truth!

This is a pregnancy loss blog.

Why would anyone start a blog on such a topic, you ask?!?!

My answer to that is simple, this blog is for connection.

Forget Me Not is all about connection, support, empathy, and respect/love. I have suffered three pregnancy losses, one was an early pregnancy loss in 2018, another was a complete molar pregnancy in 2021, and the third was a chemical pregnancy in 2022. Pregnancy and infant loss is absolutely gut wrenching and many women feel alone during their time of grief. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, yet we rarely share our stories. It is not talked about openly and there is so much stigma around it. Your pregnancy and your baby deserve to be honored; you have a right to share your story and your journey. Many women suffer in silence. It is time to break that silence. Pregnancy loss can be extremely difficult and painful to open up about. No two stories are the same. My goal is to build an informative community where others share their stories and feel supported. Even if you don't share your story to Forget Me Not, I hope that reading my experiences as well as others, makes you feel less alone. When I went through my losses, I turned to the internet to find commonalities. This helped a great deal with my first loss, however with my second loss being a molar pregnancy, it seemed like everything online pointed to chemotherapy and cancer. Molar pregnancy happens to 1 in 1,000 women in the United States. So, another goal of mine is to raise awareness for Molar Pregnancy.

When you come to my site you will see my pregnancy loss stories and hopefully others will share theirs as well. I plan to post a blog at least once a month. I have quite a few ideas on blog posts that I want to write about. I will also be updating readers on my own journey that I am still going through in regards to my molar pregnancy and hopefully someday a new pregnancy. I want to write for women going through loss as well as their spouses, close friends and family members. If you have never experienced such a loss, it is hard to know what to say or do for the person going through the loss. I want to help in any way that I can. I encourage readers to give feedback always. I am by no means an expert and maybe you have other suggestions that helped you or a different opinion, please share that with me and others. As long as it is helpful to readers, it is welcomed and appreciated.

Publishing this site and sharing my truth is scary and puts me in a vulnerable place. However, this is a huge passion of mine and I feel it is my duty in a way to share my stories if it helps just one person feel less alone. I will admit in 2018 I couldn't even say the word "miscarriage" without crying. Now, I am very open with my pregnancy loss experiences, as you will read.

Thanks for visiting and reading!

-Katie

Photo taken by the amazing Dora Hoge. Check her out on Instagram: @dorahogephotography