About
Natalie grew up in Kaysville, Utah. She earned a journalism degree from Weber State University and worked at the Deseret Morning News prior to starting her family.
She is the proud mother of three sons. She uses this blog to write about her adventures as an imperfect homemaker.
Natalie is also a member of Utah Share, a support group for people impacted by pregnancy and infant loss. She resides in Weber County with her husband Travis.
Feb 28, 2011 @ 13:37:56
natalie,
this is totally random, but i read a bit more about you and discovered you live in utah and you are a member of SHARE. do you go to the meetings? does your husband go with you? i have been wanting to go, but i don’t know if i am ready to take that step. any thoughts?
Feb 28, 2011 @ 15:56:25
Yes I belong to SHARE. I have been to a few of their weekly meetings and they were really good. My husband came with but mostly for moral support. I think the meetings generally have a female audience. With my share group they have at least one meeting per year that is specifically for dads and then another that is specifically for siblings.
I haven’t been forever because, I’ll be honest with you, it scared me to death to hear about all of the things that had happened to other people. I hope to have another baby someday and it was really hard for me to hear all of other people’s experiences. I am a worrier and that made me really nervous. I went to our Share social and the walk to remember and LOVED them. They were fun.
I don’t know if that helps you at all. I really love what share does for people and I think their meetings are really cool. It might be good for you to “share” your thoughts and feelings with people who have been there before.
Jan 05, 2012 @ 18:19:16
Natalie,
I stumbled onto your blog today looking for things on child loss. I read your post Words of Wisdom. Though I don’t have any words of wisdom either I wanted to share with you my page on Facebook which is just a place for us to connect with others that are going through the loss of a child and to hopefully help and encourage each other. It’s Hope: Our journey through miscarriage, stillbirth, and SIDS (www.facebook.com/ourprecioushope).
My daughter, Hope, was stillborn almost 2 months ago and is why I started this page.