What would be your advice for someone who is trying to prepare for potential grief?
Specifically, my wife is pregnant but there have been some complications. At the moment, we don't know if our unborn daughter will survive or not, or if she'll have any permanent disabilities. We're waiting for some test but as you can imagine it's pretty hard. We've both spent days crying, both together and alone (when my wife was in the hospital for a few days).
On one hand, we still want to keep hope that maybe things will be OK. But we're also afraid and trying to prepare ourselves emotionally for the worst (and even this we're not sure of what 'worst' is exactly - death? now or in 2, 3, 4 years?).
So far we're doing pretty well, because of the lockdown we at least spend a lot of time together, cooking together, watching TV, etc, and we also have good friends and family we can count on... aaaand I think I've just answered my own question, to be honest.
Thank you for doing this, I've already saved the links you've given.
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What would be your advice for someone who is trying to prepare for potential grief?
Specifically, my wife is pregnant but there have been some complications. At the moment, we don't know if our unborn daughter will survive or not, or if she'll have any permanent disabilities. We're waiting for some test but as you can imagine it's pretty hard. We've both spent days crying, both together and alone (when my wife was in the hospital for a few days).
On one hand, we still want to keep hope that maybe things will be OK. But we're also afraid and trying to prepare ourselves emotionally for the worst (and even this we're not sure of what 'worst' is exactly - death? now or in 2, 3, 4 years?).
So far we're doing pretty well, because of the lockdown we at least spend a lot of time together, cooking together, watching TV, etc, and we also have good friends and family we can count on... aaaand I think I've just answered my own question, to be honest.
Thank you for doing this, I've already saved the links you've given.
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