
When I first started working in birth work I never understood why bereavement did not have as much emphasis and groups where people talk as pregnancy, birth, and postpartum groups. Death happened early in my life due to me being raised by my grandmother and so as I got older I learned to cope with it better. My maternal side of the family has obstetric complications and so miscarriages and stillborn were also a tragic, but normal event. There is a thin veil between life and death and so also it is a troubling subject there is no way to talk about life with death and loss.
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