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I hope you know

When the breath left your tiny body, I didn’t know for sure that “it” had happened. I laid there, willing your chest to rise again, but it didn’t. We placed our hands over your heart as it slowed and eventually stopped just after 3:30am, still not appreciating that it was real. I held you untilContinue reading “I hope you know”

Posted byThis Grieving MamaFebruary 9, 2022Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on I hope you know

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This one got me today.
It was just a baby swing. And she was just another baby being pushed in it, on an uncharacteristically summer-like April day. But to me, it was (and she was) so very much more. Norah on a park swing represents just one of many things she got to do that Miles didn't. I don't know when (or if) I'll stop categorizing kid things, or moments, or life experiences, as he-didn't-but-she-did/will. I know I won't take for granted the things we'll get to experience with her that we couldn't with him. And I'll definitely never stop feeling like we all got robbed of big things, and little things, and all the things in between.
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