Moms of many losing a child.

I have been following Frankie’s web site every since her mom started it a few years ago. Frankie’s mom continues to write in there and share her deep grief and loss with all of her readers who have been with her from the beginning.

One thing that has struck me throughout Frankie’s long illness and then her abrupt death, is how important her siblings have been to Frankie’s parents and to each other. It’s nothing earth shaking or monumental, it is just the day-to-day stuff, the humor and the togetherness and how that has been a comfort in and of itself.

I cannot compare my own grief of a stillborn baby to Frankie’s loss at two years old. But I do remember that having the other children to care for and to look after helped my recovery too. When I would have rather sunk into my bed and cry all day, making breakfast and tying shoe laces got me out of myself.

Telling women that they should have more babies because their child might die someday is sick.

Is it sick? Or is it practical advice based on personal experience. Is it wrong? Or is that part of God’s design for families. Is that part of His design to soothe a mother’s heart?

Or, in this and age when we are so blessed with good health care and community health, is speaking about the unspeakable loss of a child now taboo?

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