Grieving the little one I never knew
How do I grieve the loss of a dream, or the loss of what once was, but was suddenly halted?
The hurt we don’t talk about
“Disenfranchised grief” is a grief that isn’t acknowledged or talked about on a societal level. It leads to feeling a lack of permission to grieve, or invalidated. It can be loss of a person, a dream, or an identity. Like losing the title “mommy” or losing my dream of what Christmas would look like with a newborn when there’s been a loss or infertility.