(Topic: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Statistics) Introduction This is another shareable post! Please feel free to share the link to this blog or this post specifically. In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I am focusing on topics that will help friends of families going through the loss of a baby, geared toward
Category: Math
The Math of Grief
(Topic: Infant loss, grief, math) Image credit: http://aetherforce.com/fibonacci/ Dear Friends, I have friends with all sorts of backgrounds, and all sorts of experience. A friend of mine just went through a grief event, so we have been talking, and both of us try to find analogies to help put grief into perspective, or to make
By The Numbers
By the Numbers The Statistics of Baby Loss Hi Friends, This is going to be a brief explanation of the statistics of baby loss you may see floating around. Some are true, some are false, and most are simply a little misleading unless you hear where the numbers are from. I will be including
Learning and Growing
This is a tree in the cemetery. I don’t know what kind it is. Dear friends, I recently learned a phrase that I find beautiful, and really hits the nail on the head. Have you ever noticed how, in English, we have no real, common word for a parent who has lost a child? We
Winter Hats, Part III: Mathematical Shapes (Mobius and Klein bottle)
Part III of winter hats is here! And this time it’s math-based. Remember Part I? It featured a blue hat? Well, I had yarn left over, in prodigious amounts. So I decided to make something for myself. I had seen a Mobius scarf, which I had really liked the idea of. As you’ll see, mine
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Mathematical Crocheting
Hello again!It’s been a while, but I finally have gathered together a few more pictures. So over the next few days, you can expect to see some more examples of things I’ve made.Enjoy! Here is a coat/dress that I made last year. The dress shape is the the same pattern as you have seen in