You don't even want to brush your teeth let alone be responsible for someone else. You just want to be numb. How is it possible that we can still be a mom to our living children?

Going back into the public domain can feel terrifying after your child dies. Will I bump into someone I know? Will a stranger know how sad I am? Will I burst into tears? These are some of the questions you'll ask yourself before you venture out again.

I never quite knew why women would wail after a death of a loved one. It’s a cultural difference and/or a religious difference, I always thought. But now I understand. It's a physical response to grief.

Thinking about funeral arrangements and how to do them is really the last thing you want to think about when your child dies. Logically, you know it has to be done. Emotionally, you are crippled. Here are a few things that worked for us.

There is no process for grieving. There is no right way to grieve. Here are some things that helped me through that first week after our daughter died.

It's the little things that hit me hardest every day...

Is it better to not know about a deadly disease and die having lived a happy life or to know about it and be able to have hope for survival?

Whether it's been a week, a month, or a year, no day is different than the next. They are all grueling.

How time feels like it moves so slowly and yet is gone so quickly.

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