My Nonprofit Reviews

8 years ago we received the horrible news that our son was never going to be born. This is the tragic outcome of too many pregnancies, and to those of us who have found ourselves in this tragic situation we often find it difficult to explain to other people how we hurt. Yes, other people in our lives may truly feel sorry for us, but most people don’t really gain an emotional attachment to a baby until they are actually born. To the parents, however, we instantly develop a life-long emotional attachement and imagine our desires for our child’s entire future, but when it all ends before it even starts we continue that emotional attachment everyday for the rest of our lives, always with thoughts of what might have been. The biggest complaints of parents in our situation is that other people “just don’t get it”. Hope After Loss is an amazing organization full of parents just like us. We have gained so much from attending support groups early on, and even more by becoming support group facilitators ourselves and helping other parents. The most important thing about HAL to us is being with people who “get it”.