When My Baby Died, I Was Shocked By What People Told Me. This Is The 1 Sentence I Wish They'd Said Instead.

My second child, Ben, was stillborn at full term on New Year's Eve 2003. It was an out-of-the-blue, devastating shock that started my indoctrination into living with grief - and other people's opinions of how I should live my life with grief.

Grief is hard - we don't talk about it much as a society - and Ben's death opened my eyes to just how grief-averse most of us are.

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