When words are hard to find, you can always start by listening.
After a loss, especially after a perinatal loss, which is characterized by the painful dearth of memories, lives of bereaved parents are filled with a long series of “first time…
Dear Doctor X, you will most likely not remember me, I am Katia, Angelo’s mother. Angelo was born in his hospital on 26-03-2010. March 26, 25 weeks.
Autobiography of a love This is part of my story. What it all began with. Written in a whisper, closed in a drawer and then reread, at a distance, after…
Taken from “Aptonomia” Literary Anthology 2016
The story of Davide, in the words of his mother.
I planted some bulbs this morning. As I covered them with earth for a moment I thought it was a bit like burying them.
Silent lullaby
The importance of support for childbirth and the puerperium of mothers affected by perinatal bereavement in the words of a woman, doctor and mother, who shares with us her recent…
Michele is 40 years old, a bar and a baby on the way. Michele waits, and works. Around him, as if it were a fever, everyone is waiting. They ask…
“Madam, we say it for you, better not to get too attached” I just gave birth. I gave birth even before I packed my suitcase for the hospital, the list…
