Today my daughter and son-in-law are completing a termination of her third pregnancy - first a miscarriage, second my beloved granddaughter Charlotte 14
months, and this one terminated at, I think 17 weeks, because of genetic abnormality. My daughter is awesome in her clear thinking about this decision and our
whole immediate family is behind her and my son-in-law. However they have encountered judgment and argument and so have I, which makes it even harder. My
daughter, wants to get PG again after she heals physically and emotionally and that takes guts.
This was a little boy, due on my birthday in Oct. Like other grandmothers on this board I so wish I could take this away, but know I can't - can only be here, emotionally and physically. We are all sad, except when Charlotte makes us smile. When I leave to go back home, I won't have Charlotte to make me smile any more. I will be coming back with my husband over the weekend to grieve, hug and take some of the sting out of Mother's Day.
This was a little boy, due on my birthday in Oct. Like other grandmothers on this board I so wish I could take this away, but know I can't - can only be here, emotionally and physically. We are all sad, except when Charlotte makes us smile. When I leave to go back home, I won't have Charlotte to make me smile any more. I will be coming back with my husband over the weekend to grieve, hug and take some of the sting out of Mother's Day.
