Two Weeks After Our Baby Died, My 8-Year-Old Whispered, “Mom, She Isn’t Gone—I Saw What Daddy Did at the Hospital”
That somehow made the betrayal more complicated.
“You let me say I couldn’t picture her.”
“I know.”
“You heard me say I was afraid I’d forget someone I never got to see.”
“I know.”
“And you had pictures.”
He started crying harder.
“I kept thinking I would show you when you were stronger.”