I Had Barely Finished Holding My Son’s Newborn Baby When a Nurse Pulled Me Aside and Whispered, “That Isn’t the Child He Left With”
That was liberating for Chloe especially.
She spent the first year worrying that saying:
“One child
would erase Lily and Leo.
Dr. Shah told her:
“Your children do not depend on strangers knowing their names in order to remain your children.”
That sentence helped all of us.
I keep photographs of them.