Family portrait, this may be the hardest thing to write about. A family portrait. A portrait that includes each member of your family. What do you do when one member of your family cannot be there? You reschedule, that's easy. But, what do you do when one member of your family will never be able to be there?
The baby loss mom will never feel that her family portrait is complete, there will forever be someone missing. Some moms will hold a picture of their child in their family portrait. Some moms will have a special "something" that is included that represents their child. Either way, there's still a family member missing, it will never be complete, it will never be "just right".
Day 18 is family portrait. My family portrait will never be complete, there will forever be a child missing. The extent of the emptiness in mommy's heart when looking at a family portrait can never fully be explained or understood unless you are a baby loss mom. For my day 18 photo, I decided to express the emptiness as best I could. This is our family picture, I've "altered" it to show what a baby loss mom sees, what she feels, what a baby loss mom knows... a family portrait is empty when you don't have all of your children.
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