Editor: Kristin Binder
Kristin Binder writes about life, love, and loss from her home in the northwest hills of Connecticut. In 2008, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Peyton Elizabeth, who was born with a very rare form of infant leukemia. Though Peyton fought with the heart of a prize fighter, the battle was too great, and 28 days later she left this world from the comfort of her mother’s arms.
Kristin blogs about mothering and grieving Peyton, as well as her struggles with secondary infertility, IVF, and the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy and parenting after loss on her blog Once A Mother. She and her husband run an initiative to assist other critically ill infants and their families called Doing Good In Her Name. She has been a guest blogger at the now defunct Secret Garden Meeting, as well as a regular contributor to Meet You At The Sunset. She Inspires magazine named her blog one of the Top 21 blogs to inspire creativity. She recently completed her first novel, and is working on a memoir. Kristin makes her home with her husband, a sweet black lab named Charlotte, and “The Snowflakes,” twins conceived via IVF.
Copy Editor: Sara Clement
Sara Clement is a professional freelance writer and editor with a background in premedical sciences and psychology. After three spread out 1st trimester miscarriages, and losing twin sons to still births six weeks apart in the spring of 2009, Sara gave birth to her rainbow baby girl, Alicia Venus, in September 2011. She enjoys living and hiking in the mountains of Missoula, Montana with her children and husband of 17 years, Ty Clement, who works as a clinical therapist and is the author of Being Ourself. Together they have begun working on the sequel, Being Ourself, Loving Ourselves and on a clinical self help book The Golden Way. Sara is currently manifesting her own brain-child, Myths About Grief and Loss: a social commentary and blogs at Reflections of a Butterfly. Other inhabitants of her “Jungle House” include her sentient Old English Sheep dog, a Basset Hound with a teaspoon of brains, a Pug with a size complex, a mellow Lop eared rabbit, a sleepy Greek tortoise, and a sly silver Ferret.
Public Relations/Social Media and Contributing Editor: Kathy Benson
Kathy Benson is a Domestic Engineer with three children (two here and one in Heaven) trying to live mindfully and find joy in the journey after dealing with secondary infertility and pregnancy loss for over five years. She has been married to her college sweetheart since 2000 and they live in Chicago, Illinois with their eight year old son and two year old daughter. Kathy loves to write and has been blogging at Bereaved and Blessed (formerly Four of a Kind) about parenting, infertility and loss since April 2007. Kathy’s blog is on Redbook Magazine’s Blogroll: The Best Infertility Blogs and Circle of Moms recently named Bereaved and Blessed to their 2012 list of the Top 25 Moms with Inspiring Families.
Kathy sees herself as a “wounded healer” and is passionate about helping others who have also struggled with infertility and loss work through their grief and make some good come from the tragedies that they have experienced. She is also an American Council on Exercise (A.C.E.) certified Group Fitness Instructor and teaches classes part time at a church in her neighborhood. Kathy loves to exercise, run and practice yoga, all of which have been very therapeutic for her over the years on her journey through infertility and loss.
Website Production: Martha Waltz Wewer
Martha is a thirty-something attorney making a life in Holly Springs, NC. She is a happy Mommy to Baby Zoey and Babies Owen and Joshua (formerly Babies A and B if you follow her blogs), loves two incredible dogs, Quincy and Sidney and is a very proud wife to Tim. She is also the author of Surviving Baby and A Watched Belly Never Grows blogs. Martha lost twin boys – Owen and Joshua (formerly Babies A and B), 4 weeks apart – Owen at 18 weeks, Joshua at 22 weeks. Both were born still in April, 2008. She was diagnosed one week later with a genetic disorder called a “Robertsonian Balanced Translocation”. This condition results in multiple early term miscarriages, of which Martha has suffered a total of eight. In December, 2010, after lots of tears, therapy, drugs and ultrasounds, her daughter, Zoey Jane, was born screaming. It was the best day of Martha’s life.
Research: NaLonni Madden
NaLonni (Nay-Lah-Knee) Madden is a 30 something, Los Angeles native, married to her husband whom she found on MySpace, and living in Grand Prairie, TX. She has one 10 year old daughter and is the proud mama to five babies: 4 lost in the first trimester, and her angel lost in 2010 during her 2nd trimester. She is a bona-fide nag who writes over at The Picture Frame Marriage. Additionally, NaLonni is a volunteer group leader for Face2Face Groups with Faces of Loss Faces of Hope for the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.