The Dead Baby Diaries

Sad stories of loss to remind us of love

Eileen Cowen
4 min readOct 12, 2020

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A painting of a mother with a baby superimposed on her body. She carries her child, even though he is no longer living.
“A Missing Piece of Me” by Katie M.Berggren (https://shop.kmberggren.com/default.asp)

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Every year, hundreds of thousands of families in the United States have their lives and hopes forever altered by a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. For the last six years, living everyday with my daughter’s stillbirth has given me ever-evolving perspective on pregnancy and family. Sometimes, I’m…

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Eileen Cowen

Food history nerd, science witch, and Army vet, living a mostly outdoors life in Greater Cascadia. Writing about a little bit of everything.