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Janine Oberstadt's avatar

Sending so much love to Laura, Laura, Adriana and Nick. I’m a bereaved mom of 22 years. Time and community keep you moving forward but you are forever changed. Currently grieving the grandchildren that never will be.

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Martha Loftis's avatar

Love your compassionate writing. Read the Nick Cave link and I’m going to be thinking about that for a while.

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Lee's avatar

This was like a knife in the heart.

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Marisa Miller's avatar

I had a full term stillborn and never think of it as losing a child. Maybe denial or maybe the hierarchy of grief. Please let us know how we can help Laura and Isaiah and Auroya.

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Laura W.'s avatar

My husband lost his best friend to a drunk driver 11 years ago-- his mother posted that yesterday would have been his 40th birthday. She too lost a child. My husband and I bonded in that My friend passed away from suicide when she was 16-- another woman, her mother who passed a month and a day to my own mother's death, she too lost a child. My mother's 4 year anniversary of her death is today.

I cannot imagine the intense pain of that but I pray and pray for those who have for a smile to at least one more time grace their faces. But I was just reading a new substack I signed up for-- again, about losing a child.

I just can't imagine the pain. I can't even fathom how much that could hurt and how to even be able to move on, go on from that. But, I empathize and I share my support to those who have, lost a child. Sending love and hugs.

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Steve Evans's avatar

Thanks Kim for writing this.

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