When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
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Related It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a ... VANESSA LACHEY As many of you are aware, I had been anxiously awaiting the addition of a new baby to my life. The b... CHRIS CAGLE The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep whil... TIA MOWRY Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is th... JEAN KERR When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have ba... RAY BRADBURY I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I... MATTHEW PERRY I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the ga... MICHAEL STRAHAN There was a baby that I saw behind the plane. I don't know how the baby got there, but he was fine. GABRIEL VIVAS It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking ... JULIANNE MOORE There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summer... KURT COBAIN When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES BARRIE When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU It's been a good exercise in patience. But I kind of consider this like childbirth ? as soon as the ... JANE EDMONDSON When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g... GARY SHTEYNGART Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to. ERICA EISDORFER It doesn't matter how you get your baby, even if it's via FedEx as long as you get to hold your prec... CINDY MARGOLIS Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and ... PENN JILLETTE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ... SISSY SPACEK Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute ... WILLIE GEIST When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is s... TERRY BAIN How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost you mind? STEPHENIE MEYER Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the... SUSAN WOJCICKI The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. JESSAMYN WEST You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. FRANK SINATRA I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby. ABBEY CLANCY My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to ... ELLIOTT YAMIN I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I lo... D'ANGELO Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach,... CARINE ROITFELD I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ... JODI PICOULT I was a little hesitant (on the 50-yarder). I didn't swing away on that one and kind of guided it th... RYAN LONGWELL I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a s... RAFAEL NADAL 'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby. CARRIE UNDERWOOD The biggest man you ever did see once was a baby. UNKNOWN The baby was a little bit warm -- I mean, fair to say, because of the sun -- but the baby was fine. CARLOS NEGRON When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that whe... ANONYMOUS When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was
smiling. Live your life so that whe... ANONYMOUS The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was ... DANIEL BRYAN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but... LEAH BUSQUE After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to... HOLLY MADISON When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. Yo... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job AMERICAN PROVERB I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While ... CHARLES GRODIN I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friend... SCOTTY MCCREERY The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all... PAULY SHORE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of... DEIRDRE O'KANE I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can't do everything at ... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. JESSAMYN WEST Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. MARIELLA FROSTRUP Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that t... JEAN KERR I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. FRANK SINATRA just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby... LADY GAGA You never know what the New Year will bring. So, even if you're not yet planning to have a baby, whe... DR. JENNIFER L. HOWSE I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He... CHARLES M. SCHULZ There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character yo... MARC DAVIS In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of y... ALICE WALKER Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver ... JODI PICOULT A tiny baby that would have been lost is now remembered because of a tombstone script and picture. O... BETTY MILLER I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Onc... KIESZA When you are born you are crying and everyone around you is smiling.Live your life so that when you ... UNKNOWN Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take towa... HODA KOTB It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was ... JODIE SWEETIN Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a... MING-NA WEN It's pretty amazing. It didn't even occur to us last night that he might be the first baby born for ... ERICA SMITH Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older... DAVID LEVITHAN Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to co... SALMAN RUSHDIE Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality... BAT FOR LASHES When you drill baby drill, this is what you get baby get. TIM J. MOERMAN When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fasc... LENNON PARHAM Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your... PEGGY O'MARA [Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to t... OBERT SKYE When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just... JANE GOODALL If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute. JAMIE DORNAN Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You'... VIDYA BALAN Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, ... LEMONY SNICKET And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL This group has meant the world to me since my son was born. When you first have a baby with Down Syn... AMY WEBB You always tell me to be careful around everyone else but you when you are the actual cause of my pa... MEG MCFEY Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON I once saw a woman who had a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit years ago. She said, 'I still ... KIT MONTZ There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the fir... JARED PADALECKI That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations whe... CARA NESS That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations whe... CARA VAN NESS Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get som... KATHA POLLITT I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be do... LUCY POWELL You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there. KAREN DUFFY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON
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I'm Mother Courage ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g... ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re... ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it... ELIZABETH BOWEN The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate... ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn... ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai... ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o... ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing... ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ... ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o... ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w... ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling... ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just cl... ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny... ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... ELIZABETH WEIN