My sister had a stillbirth two years ago and our family still doesn't talk about it — we all tiptoe around her and around each other at family gatherings, and when she mentions the baby we change the subject or get awkward. I can see it's isolating her more and I think our silence is making everything harder, but I don't know how to break this pattern we've all fallen into.
More people experience this than they realize.
Love disguised as protection becomes its own kind of abandonment.
“Where Are You with Pregnancy loss miscarriage and infant death?”
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