Product Review: Baby Footprints Heart Charm Necklace (Grieving Support)
Grieving Support
Tiny Footprints on a Mother’s Heart
When a baby arrives, be it for a day, a month, a year or more,
or perhaps only a sweet flickering moment-
the fragile spark of a tender soul the secret swell
of a new pregnancy the goldfish flutter known to
only you- you are unmistakenly changed…
the tiny footprints left behind on your heart
bespeak your name as Mother.
– Author Unknown
This may sound a little strange, but I felt a little guilty when I bought a bird’s nest necklace off Etsy with only one little fake pearl to represent my daughter a year ago. The guilt was because I technically feel like I should have had two fake little pearls to represent the child I lost. It may seem a little weird, but losing a child at the beginning of my second trimester felt more like losing a child than an ‘it’. Going through a D&C procedure a week before Christmas two years ago was devastating and although the pain of the loss is gone, it is not something I think I will ever forget. The baby was going to be born around the fourth of July, which is also my birth month and birthstone. Around the time of my miscarriage, a ring my husband gave me years before with four tiny rubies on it, had lost one of the rubies. I did not even realize one was missing until sometime after Christmas following the miscarriage and I remember staring down at my ring in sorrow and anger at the twisted timing fate had fallen on this ring I got as a gift years before on our wedding anniversary. I decided, after seeing this necklace doing a completely unrelated search for Momma’s Bacon, I wanted my ruby back and this is how I was going to get it. I wanted to honor that child in some small way and while the child is not a fake pearl egg in my bird’s nest necklace where Brooke symbolically lies around my neck, you are there, my child, and you are not forgotten. It was nice to know you for the short time we had together and I’m sorry for the way things turned out. But you will forever be near my heart if only as footprints of what life could have been.
Extra: First birthstone and line of engraving are free. The piece is hung from an 18 inch silver plated beadball chain.
Special Message from Momma’s Bacon: I wrote these three grieving support posts on miscarriage months ago to include on my blog on my anniversary of my miscarriage and decided to continue and follow through to have them go live. These posts are in no way related to the topic of the Newton Massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school that tragically happened on Friday. I can not begin to imagine the sadness these families who lost their loved ones are feeling. I mourn with the rest of our country and continue to hold my child and family close as each day is a precious gift that can be taken from us without a moment’s notice. Rest in Peace.
Baby Footprints Heart Charm Necklace (Grieving Support)
List Price: $20.00
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