Two Weeks After Our Baby Died, My 8-Year-Old Whispered, “Mom, She Isn’t Gone—I Saw What Daddy Did at the Hospital”

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PART 50 — TOBY AT NINE

A year later, Toby asked:

“Do babies know when they die?”

I froze.

Then:

“I don’t know.”

“Did Melanie know Dad was holding her?”

“I don’t know.”

He thought.