Great loss

[theatokos]

I don't know how I missed the entry.... well, I do. I was working all day yesterday and didn't read my friends page. A woman from one of my due date communities lost her sweet, beautiful daughter yesterday. I have been crying my eyes out at work. I cannot even imagine the grief. I have never met this woman, but I respect her so much and I loved her stories and pictures of her little girl.

This puts every difficult day in perspective. I will take a hundred difficult nights of crying and sore nipples and getting kicked in the belly and a hundred zombie days of sleep deprivation if it means another day of little Bennett's smiles and snuggles.

What is remembered lives.

Comments

[ladyartemisa.livejournal.com]

i have been a mess since i saw it too.

i called mike crying, i have been crying at work... i feel for her and her family.

[baileywicked.livejournal.com]

I haven't even read it beyond here. How heartbreaking. I couldnt deal I know I couldn;t

[jesamin.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading the ddc a long time ago...It wasn't Aybra, was it? She's the only baby who I know by name and have followed since birth that was supposed to be born in July. That doesn't lessen the pain, of course, I just don't know anyone else from there.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

How devastating. That's horrible.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

It was introducingyael and her lovely Adelle Shayna. She hasn't posted in the DDC, but on her personal journal.

[inkprincess.livejournal.com]

omg, how sad. :(

[honeyrider.livejournal.com]

i've never met yael either but i've been reading her journal for a couple years now and she never failed to impress as a mother, as a woman, as a human being.

it's heartbreaking...

[norasma.livejournal.com]

I am at a loss for words,
I can't even fathom it, I would lose my mind.
I feel so deeply for her.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

I keep saying I would buy a book of hers on parenting and annecdotes. I hope she doesn't stop writing. She impresses me a great deal and my heart breaks for her and her family. It's a reminder that tragedy doesn't occur to "bad" parents or to inexperienced parents. I am taking lots of deep breaths today.

[bloodfever.livejournal.com]

That's...I don't even know what to do with that. How devastating.

[imp-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I had no idea until I read this. Now I can't stop crying. How awful.

[keypike.livejournal.com]

I've been in shock since I read Yael's journal on the weekend. I can't stop thinking about her.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

In the middle of the night, up with B, I found myself moving into the next stage of grief - asking the Why questions. Why this family? Why this baby in a home that is loving? Why not other babies who live in neglect or abuse? The unanswerable questions.

I am surprised at how much I am grieving Adelle's death, but I am.