Courageously Expecting
30 Days of Encouragement for Pregnancy After Loss – Perfect Devotional for Expectant Mothers Who Have Experienced a Previous Miscarriage
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Find hopeful courage and peace of mind as you face pregnancy after losing a baby.
Motherhood doesn't always look like “happily ever after,” and family planning doesn't always go according to plan. While pregnancy is widely regarded as one of the most joyful times in a woman's life, for the mother who has experienced pregnancy loss, a subsequent pregnancy can feel like she's holding her breath and hoping for what she can't control.
In Courageously Expecting, author Jenny Albers meets you in this difficult season as someone who has also experienced the worst and cautiously hoped for the best. She invites you on a thirty-day journey through the complicated and often contradictory emotions that accompany pregnancy after a loss. Together, you'll spend time in reflection, prayer, and journaling as you discover how to find the courage to move forward in faith, including:
Trying again after a lossSeeking comfort in God instead of GoogleCelebrating each milestoneBelieving that joy will come after mourning
Throughout this journey Jenny encourages you to cling to faith in the face of fear and will guide you to:
Cultivate hope when doubt weighs heavyRealize that the past does not dictate the present or the future and that God creates a way in the wilderness of grief and lossFlip the script on the what-if, worst-case-scenario narrative in your mind and learn to take your thoughts captiveFind the courage to humble yourself and ask for and accept help from others.
Whether you're pregnant again or still in the stages of considering becoming so, Courageously Expecting is a companion to help you through the days when fear overshadows hope. Taking this thirty-day invitation to join Jenny is your brave step toward hope when pregnancy feels heavier than you ever thought it could.
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Albers, a contributor at the Pregnancy After Loss Support website, debuts with a heartfelt collection of a month's worth of daily reflections, offering hope and encouragement for those trying to conceive or carry a birth to term following pregnancy loss. Albers thought she and her husband had their family neatly planned out, envisioning three years between each birth of a crew of kids. But just as her first child, a daughter, approached her third birthday, Albers had two losses in a row: first an ectopic pregnancy, then a stillbirth. Drawing on ample scriptural sources, she helps readers find the courage to pursue and embrace pregnancy after loss, even if they cannot be sure they will carry to term, since "God promises to restore every broken thing, including your motherhood." Albers shares prayers that soothed her as she overcame her own doubt, envy, grief, guilt, and feelings of being misunderstood. She encourages the treasuring of memories, such as a positive pregnancy test or the first heartbeat recorded, while anticipating a heavenly reunion. Moving forward, she emphasizes how something as simple as purchasing nursery decor can help restore hope. "Loss doesn't discriminate," she writes, while Psalm 126:5 promises "those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy." These pages will offer much balm to uncertain expecting mothers.
