A holiday nobody wants

Today - October 15 - I have learned is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Of course, it took actually losing an infant myself to become aware the day existed, so maybe the campaign needs some work.

One website about the day stated it was for remembering "babies who were born asleep, or whom we carried but never met, or those we have held but could not take home, or the ones that made it whom and didn't stay."

Those we have held but could not take home.

A friend recently posted this quote by Conor Oberst, "I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."

Yeah. That.