It is perhaps one of the hardest experiences to receive the news and assume that a child will not be able to be born, that he suffers from a disease or malfomation incompatible with life. It is bleak, but today I wanted to tell you about the situation to be added when you must tell your son that his expected little brother will not be born.
These days a mother whom I know and admire, Eloísa, from A Different Maternity, whom we even interviewed for a while in Babies and more, has related her experience and I want to share it with you because it is something of enormous emotional intensity and a situation too , of great human enrichment. Do youHow do we tell our son that our pregnancy is not going to end with the birth of the expected little brother?
Each child, according to their maturity and age, must receive the news differently and will also react differently, but I am sure they deserve, that they have the right to know, in the words they can understand, that this loss will occur. They also need to work out their duel and possibly cry. But that inevitable pain is also part of their lives and will increase love for the brother who will not be born.
I hope you never have to go through this hard life experience, but, if it comes, my advice is that you let your children know what is happening, that they can express their sorrow and their love for his little brother who will not be born. And also, that son who will not be able to be born deserves to be loved during the brief time he is on Earth.
