This post is the fourth in a series — “#DadsHurtToo — A Father’s Memoir of Miscarriage.” The day we returned from the hospital, I headed to store to fill a prescription for my wife. As I drove, I turned on the radio, set to my usual public radio channel. A state lawmaker and the host were discussing…
Author: Eric Schumacher
“Watch the Woman!” — Why We Should See and Celebrate Women in the Bible
I’ve been looking for, noticing, celebrating, and writing about the place of women in the storyline of the Bible a lot this year. Why is that? In seeing and celebrating women in the storyline of the Bible, I’m not sliding down a slippery-slope of liberalism, about to careen off a cliff into goddess worship. In…
#DadsHurtToo (Part 3) — Miscarriage and Shame
This is the third post in a series — “#DadsHurtToo — A Father’s Memoir of Miscarriage.” Our daughter—Living Child #4—entered the world in December 2008 with no complications. In the spring of 2009, we learned another baby was on its way, due in February 2010. On a family vacation in July, my wife experienced strange contraction…
#DadsHurtToo (Part 2) — Miscarriage and Comparison
This is the second post in a series — “#DadsHurtToo — A Father’s Memoir of Miscarriage.” Despite arriving pale, blue, and breathless—the umbilical cord cinching a death-grip on his throat—our first child lived, as did our second and our third. We first experienced the death of a child in the womb in September 2007, a year…
#DadsHurtToo (Part 1): A Father’s Memoir of Miscarriage
My wife and I have nine children, but if you meet us, we’ll only say we have five. That’s because we’ve only ever named five—the five we’ve met, the five who took breaths, the five we brought home. Four of our children died by “miscarriage.” Medically speaking, miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy…