To try and allow the reader inside the narrator’s mind (and heart) in the hope that the reader will realise just how difficult things are for the narrator.

Many parents of infants who die report being particularly stressed by people who avoid any discussion of the loss or offer clichés or dismissing statements such as “you can have another child”.

Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. The few studies that have compared responses to different types of losses have found that the loss of a child is followed by a more intense grief than the death of a spouse or a parent [ 5]. Conflicting with current life-cycle expectations, the death of a child may be experienced as the death of the parents' future dreams as well as creating a profound change in their present roles and functioning.

For example, you could enter a community walk or a run in memory of your child, or start an event of your own. As much as your friends want to empathize and be there for you, there are just some elements about losing a child that they just may not comprehend. make available professional bereavement follow-up counseling for grieving family members, including individual, family, and/or group; 6. This response is somewhat unique to sibling loss compared to other types of losses and has at times powerfully affected siblings' adaptation. The survey found that of those who completed it 72 percent of parents who were married at the time of their child's death are still married to the same person.Bohannon [ 33], for example, conducted a longitudinal study of couples' grief responses and marital functioning. There is no anger in the narrators tone as she is telling her story which suggests that she accepts not only the death of her son but also how her son was killed.