Most parents have invested a lot of time and energy toward helping their children grow into adults. Your parents’ happiness is intricately tied up in your own. It’s likely that their ideas about who you are connect to how they view themselves, and their own lives.
It seems that much more cruel to have to endure postpartum depression after miscarriage when your arms are empty. Your loss is real. And so is your grief.
Losing a sibling means mourning a uniquely shared bond. Honor your right to grieve, make space for your past, and develop a new sense of self
Understanding traumatic birth experience. A traumatic birth experience will affect 3 to 5% of women. The trauma isn’t something they can just “get over.” – Barbara Fane, LCSW, BCD, Shrewsbury-NJ
