Lots of things going on right now. I'm knitting up a storm which is great. I'm learning all sorts of things I've always wanted to know. On the down side, I'm not getting much school work done. I'm going to get a shirt made for classes that will read "I'd rather be knitting".
I may be writing an article/manual on perinatal loss, or rather, I'd be compiling information from parents who have experienced it. I can't imagine it and no one puts it in better words that the people who have gone through it. I want all of my peers to get a sense of what I have learned through the thoughtful, often poignant and heart-wrenching blogs that I have come to know. I don't want to write anything clinical. I want to put together something that inspires empathy, some tiny tiny particle of understanding so that other midwifery students/midwives tread softly, ever so softly should they ever find themselves in a position of support in such a situation. What do you think? Is it presumptuous to think I should or could put something like this together? If you do, please tell me. I do not want to cause any more pain or harm than has already happened.
2 comments:
No, I don't think it's presumptous. I've never had a daughter murdered, but I can speak in defence of those who do. The virtue of a moral imagination is a good one.
I have some people you can talk to - one who is a doula, who has lost 2 children, and my midwife, who I don't believe has ever lost children, but is one of the kindest people I know.
I don't think so at all. I think it would be lovely.. and if it could spare someone a callous comment during a horrible time, a wonderful endeavor.
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