Quote:There is mourning over the loss of a potential son or daughter, but it's not the same as the mourning over a person.

Tell that to a friend of mine who went into early labor at 23 weeks (what most, including me would consider a miscarriage), had a c-section and the baby lived 13 days. She was a tiny thing, her head was smaller than a tennis ball and she was 11 inches long, her diaper the size of a 4x4 gauze pad and it looked huge on her. Before she made a turn for the worse she was suckling on a tiny pacifier under her own power. Her funeral was last Friday.

 

And they mourned. 

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