It has been 17 days since my son, Jacob,  passed away, he was only 10 days old and already I am getting un needed advice from people telling me to move on, stop crying, or better yet telling me I can have another baby,,,,telling me my son is in a better place.  How can that be? What better place than in mommy's arms? I know, Heaven.  I completely understand and have accepted that my son is in Heaven with God and that he is now good.  But how do you deal with the constant waterworks out of nowhere from just watching a diaper commercial or how about when you are just sitting there trying to eat your dinner with your family and you just get choked up because you miss your baby and have to explain to your 9 year old why mom is crying out of nowhere.  Everyday things should get better, but they don't.   How can they?  You are missing a part of your heart, body and soul.  I don't want to forget my baby boy, ever.  So how do you cope with not having your baby apart of your everyday life? I hope to answer my own question soon. 

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I completely understand what you are going through and feel the exact same way.  I lost my son at 19 weeks pregnant through a late miscarriage... then lost my daughter 7 weeks ago by delivering prematurely at 28 weeks pregnant and having her pass 4 days after she was born. 

It is awful, it truly is.  I have been having such a hard time with this but I think what happens is that eventually this experience will just become a part of you..it will change you in a way that you never imagined..and then you will move on..but you will move on as the new person you've become.  You will no longer be the person you were before and will have to let that person go, just like we had to let go of our babies. 

And eventually, the days will get better...more smiles will appear on your face and less tears will fall from your eyes.. time does heal..it's just being patient to wait for that time in order to feel somewhat healed.  I don't think the hole in our hearts will ever go away.. they just become a part of our everyday life.

Poem-"Normal"

 

My new "Normal" 


Normal is having tears waiting behind every smile when you realizesomeone important is missing from all the important events in your family's life. 
Normal is feeling like you can't sit another minute without getting up and screaming because you just don't like to sit through anything. 
Normal is not sleeping very well because a thousand what if's & why didn't I's go through your head constantly. 
Normal is reliving that day continuously through your eyes and mind, holding your head to make it go away. 
Normal is having the TV on the minute I walk into the house to have noise, because the silence is deafening. 
Normal is every happy event in my life always being backed up with sadness lurking close behind, because of the hole in my heart. 
Normal is telling the story of your child's death as if it were an everyday, commonplace activity, and then seeing the horror in someone's eyes at how awful it sounds. And yet realizing it has become a part of my "normal". 
Normal is having some people afraid to mention my baby. 
Normal is making sure that others remember her. 
Normal is weeks, months, and years after the initial shock, the grieving gets worse sometimes, not better. 
Normal is not listening to people compare anything in their life to this loss, unless they too have lost a child. NOTHING. Even if your child is in the remotest part of the earth away from you - it doesn't compare. Losing a parent is horrible, but having to bury your own child is unnatural. 
Normal is taking pills, and trying not to cry all day, because I know my mental health depends on it. 
Normal is realizing I do cry everyday. 
Normal is disliking jokes about death or funerals, bodies being referred to as cadavers, when you know they were once someone's loved one. 
Normal is being impatient with everything and everyone, but someone stricken with grief over the loss of your child. 
Normal is sitting at the computer crying, sharing how you feel with chat buddies who have also lost a child. 
Normal is feeling a common bond with friends on the computer in England, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and all over the USA, but yet never having met any of them face to face. 
Normal is a new friendship with another grieving mother, talking and crying together over our children and our new lives. 
Normal is not listening to people make excuses for God. "God may have done this because..." I love God, I know that my baby is in heaven,but hearing people trying to think up excuses as to why babies were taken from this earth is not appreciated and makes absolutely no sense to this grieving mother. 
Normal is being too tired to care if you paid the bills, cleaned the house, did laundry or if there is any food. 
Normal is wondering this time whether you are going to say you have a child, because you will never see this person again and it is not worth explaining that my baby is in heaven. And yet when you say you have no children to avoid that problem, you feel horrible as if you have betrayed your baby. 
Normal is avoiding McDonald's and Burger King playgrounds because of small, happy children that break your heart when you see them. 
Normal is asking God why he took your child's life instead of yours and asking if there even is a God. 
Normal is knowing I will never get over this loss, in a day or a million years. 
And last of all, Normal is hiding all the things that have become "normal" for you to feel, so that everyone around you will think thatyou are "normal". 

~Written by someone that knows exactly what I'm going through, I lost my 21yr old son, he will always be my baby.
 

 

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