Friday, January 11, 2008

Sometimes I just don't know what to say anymore.

I have gotten into this sort of schedule of working really regularly and knitting most nights, and it is filling my mind. Then I stop myself and I just try to think and there isn't much there, does that make sense? It's like I am just doing all of this meaningless stuff and it's numbing me or something. I don't like feeling this way at all. Even though I am doing all this "stuff" it does not really satisfy me at all. I want to keep on working on my photo project, but somehow I never do. I still have a video that I began when I was pregnant that I really want to be working on, but I never do. I am just in a funk. I am a little stuck.

I really hope for some good news next week, I REALLY REALLY do. Today is CD 23, and I am getting anxious. Still I am trying not to get my hopes up again, like I did last month. I really wanted to get pregnant last month, on that 9th month since Birdie had died. I don't want to start feeling like there is something wrong with me, I know we haven't been trying for all that long, but when you want something SO bad 3 or 4 months seems like a long time. With Birdie we weren't even trying, she just came to us and it was a beautiful miracle.

I have said this before, we are ready. My mind, body and soul are ready. I don't want to wait anymore. I would be looking for any signs, but with Birdie there were no early signs of my pregnancy, only that my period came late and it was really unusual for that to happen. Even with as much as we want to be blessed with another pregnancy this month, we know that even when you want something bad enough does not mean that you will get it.

This week I walked the dog past the hospital side entrance that we had gone in that night. The hospital entrance that nobody was waiting at to let us in with our emergency. The hospital entrance that I then had to waddle my way into and down a long hallway as fast as I could to the elevator to the birth center. I have been walking past the hospital for many months, but never by that door. Never by that part of the hospital that also allows a view of the room where we were with her, our nest of a room, our "safe place".

I spent time with Charlotte's Mama and her sweeties today, Charlotte's spirit, Liam and Aiofe. A couple of times I almost cried, as her children are just so beautiful to behold. They speak so very sweetly of Charlotte, and Birdie. It absolutely warms my heart to hear them say Birdies name, it fills me with such joy and hope. To observe Charlotte's Mama with her precious little ones gives me strength, she lifts me up, and her friendship means the world to me. She now has what I right now dream of, a future, a future filled with giddy lauphter and boundless bundles of joy and song. I want to dance again, I want to be that Mama to be, and through Charlotte's Mama I know that I can someday. I know that I can, and not only will I dance, I will sing. When I hear the cries of my sweet babe full of life, lungs full of air and heart beating loud and strong, I WILL SING!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think we all get through, at least some of the time, by becoming a little bit blank. Facing things is hard, but not facing them is almost harder...

I am sorry the TTC is a little rough for you right now. I think it is always a difficult ride after a loss.

Thank goodness you've found a good friend who helps you to feel better and gives you hope. Isn't it amazing when someone validates the existence of your sweet Birdie? When anyone says Aodin's name out loud I am so touched by it.

You WILL be a mother again, and you will be a wonderful, beautiful one. I will be thinking of you in the days and weeks to come, and hoping for nothing more than a sweet, beautiful baby who stays with you until you are old and gray.

Aimee said...

Hi Erin, I've never left a comment on any blog before, ever...go me. You know Chris and I are ttc after our miscarriage which was after the loss of our daughter. Today I got my period and I am so bitter. I hope--really hope-with all the hope that I no longer need for me this month--that you will be successful.

kp said...

I am so crazy, I would already be testing if I was you. Yes, wasting money like mad ... just in case I could get an early inkling of whether or not I'd be devastated all over again.
You write so beautifully of Birdie and your love for her. Your words sing, so I know your heart will again someday soon.

pinky said...

Just checking in your blog. Hope all goes well.

Melissa Morgan-Oakes said...

big hug.

niobe said...

I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I *love* the birdsongs on your blog. I was reading your blog the other day and someone commented that he had never heard the birds singing so sweetly in winter before. I just smiled.

Leigh Steele said...

Oh sweet mama, I am hoping right along with you and knowing that someday you will indeed sing!
My heart expanded last year since you and Birdie came into my life.
Love and hugs,
Leigh