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Posted: 11 January 2008 at 3:11pm | IP Logged
After reading Sam's post about La Belle Dame.com, I ordered a necklace to remember the baby we lost in April last year. It arrived today, and its absolutely lovely.
Basically, this company make various types of jewellery from healing stones to items that you can customise to remember your loss. I chose a forget me not necklace with 2 month stones - April (Diamond) for the month we lost our baby and November (Topaz) for what would have been the due date. The whole thing including delivery cost $30 which is about £15.
Here is a photo of it
I'm really pleased with it, just not sure at the moment if I'm going to be able to wear it without crying, but will sure try! Its just so nice to have something that wouldn't raise a question about what it was, but it carries so much personal significance.
La Belle Dame are one of the affiliates of Madmums now so if you are interested in looking at their site, please follow one of the links from here - like THIS ONE for example....
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Posted: 11 January 2008 at 3:42pm | IP Logged
Awwww that is lovely.
I was thinking of getting something like this for my personal rememberances.
But then I thought it's a bit weird, i mean one of my losses was a termination/D&C due to a molar pregnancy. Is it weird that I see this as a misscarriage/baby loss?
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Posted: 11 January 2008 at 4:00pm | IP Logged
A molar pregnancy is still a loss babe! It would have always been too poorly to survive, but doesn't mean it didn't exist inside you and make a bond with you! I was thinking of getting one of these pendants (footprints one) for my angel baby lost from the molar pregnancy.
Diz - thank necklace is lovely and I hope you will be able to wear it and feel some warmth and comfort from it xxx
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Posted: 11 January 2008 at 10:09pm | IP Logged
Quote: bumpsmumbec
Is it weird that I see this as a misscarriage/baby loss?
No, I don't think that's weird at all. My miscarriage was a blighted ovum - so either a baby never actually developed or was re-absorbed early on in the pregnancy. I never saw any evidance of a fetal pole, shape or anything but from the moment I saw the positive pregnancy test, that was my "baby" and always will be. To start off with, I felt that as there was "no baby" it was a little easier to deal with, but then I realised that before I started to bleed at 5 and a half weeks right through to the scan at 11 weeks that confirmed it was all over, I was still pregnant. My body was still growing the sac, I had a bump and to me, I thought there was a baby so whether or not it actually, physically existed or was just in my head and heart, it was still my baby that I lost.
So no, I don't think its weird at all. The pregnancy I lost will always be significant to me. And I am wearing the necklace right now, and have stopped crying for now!
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Topic: LaBelleDame.com miscarriage necklace
It would have always been too poorly to survive, but doesn't mean it didn't exist inside you and make a bond with you! I was thinking of getting one of these pendants (footprints one) for my angel baby lost from the molar pregnancy.
