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05-07-2016, 06:37 PM
Still a mother: Parenting after a child has died
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It happens most often when I’m driving. My 9-year-old son will be in the backseat talking or playing a game on my phone. And sometimes in my mind’s eye, next to him, I see his 11-year-old brother, a slightly bigger version but with blue eyes. Sometimes they’ll giggle together or argue about who is taking up more room.
I have two sons. It’s just that one of them is **w dead.
SEE ALSO: Finding hope when a pregnancy suddenly ends (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/pregnancy-infant-loss/)
Phoenix was 7 months and 4 days old when he died in July 2005 of bacterial meningitis serogroup B, a strain that, at the time, didn’t yet have an approved vaccine in the U.S. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/parenting-after-losing-a-child/)
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It happens most often when I’m driving. My 9-year-old son will be in the backseat talking or playing a game on my phone. And sometimes in my mind’s eye, next to him, I see his 11-year-old brother, a slightly bigger version but with blue eyes. Sometimes they’ll giggle together or argue about who is taking up more room.
I have two sons. It’s just that one of them is **w dead.
SEE ALSO: Finding hope when a pregnancy suddenly ends (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/pregnancy-infant-loss/)
Phoenix was 7 months and 4 days old when he died in July 2005 of bacterial meningitis serogroup B, a strain that, at the time, didn’t yet have an approved vaccine in the U.S. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/parenting-after-losing-a-child/)
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