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"People think the day your stillborn child is delivered must be the worst day of your life. But I think an equally horrible day is the first day after you return from the hospital and you wake up in your own bed but your belly is empty and your child is not in the house. The months you held your child in your belly and the moments you held him in your arms are over and you’ll never get them back again. Day after day after day I’d awake to a panicked emptiness. It took me time each morning to believe that what happened wasn’t just a nightmare, that it was real. The time in the hospital passed so quickly and it was the end of our time with our child. We’d been through nine months of anticipation thinking the time in the hospital would be just the beginning. It got to the point where I dreaded mornings because I knew how I’d feel when I opened my eyes. Then, all of a sudden, we were given a gift, Todd’s album. We saw our time with our son laid before our eyes. It’s as if the [photographs] spoke to us saying “It was real. You did hold him. You did kiss him. You are a family”. When I awoke the morning after we’d been given the album instead of having the panicked feeling I felt such a sense of peace." Lynda |
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