the many layers of motherhood
Motherhood after a child's diagnosis or loss is fierce and fragile. These stories reflect the strength, love, and grief carried through treatment, after loss, and in every quiet moment that follows.
Extracting The Meaning From the Loss of My Daughter
I am a mother and a bereaved mother. While I am accepting of my newly bereaved identity, I prefer for the mother and the bereaved mother in me to
How My Daughter’s Death Changed My Relationship With Time
“Picture yourself as a little girl. Remember what it felt like to be in your body and free of worry. Go back to that time.”
The Middle of Treatment
December 2024 When you should be making her Christmas wish list Not filling out forms for Make A Wish Written By Leah Bodenbach, RN,
Grieving The End of My Childbearing Years After Losing My Daughter
“How many children will I have?” I ask Isabel, my Chilean host-sister, over video chat. She’s in her kitchen in Chile deliberating my future with
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When The Hair Started Falling Out, October 2024
Written by Leah Bodenbach, RN, BSN
Her little blonde curls before treatment, and how it’s changed in the last few weeks. It’s not the physical appearance of her hair coming out that crushes me; it’s a blaring reminder of what’s happening and a tangible sign this is not a bad dream.
When we’re all home I stay so busy (as moms of littles do), just enough of a lull that my mind can forget here and there.
But it’s the hair. It slaps me in the face everytime I see her wispies float behind as she twirls and runs off.
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