I Was Told My Newborn Had Died—Then My Eight-Year-Old Son Asked Why Daddy Had Paid Aunt Rachel to Take the Crying Bundle
His lower lip trembled.
“You know her too, Mommy.”
I felt the mattress shift under my hand as I tried to steady myself.
“She came to see you in the hospital.”
“Ethan, who was she?”
He opened his mouth.
“Mommy, it was—”
Then he burst into tears before he could finish.