Happy Mother's Day for the Grieving Mothers

Just before a mother's day a new colleague told me that her only son had passed away a few years before. I was deeply moved by her account and thought that grieving mothers are ignored on this special day, be it because they are "mothers no more", be it simply because people do not know how to approach a mother who has become childless or lost a child.

The silence engulfing bereaved mothers, the silence we also have to keep, is deafening.

The question whether we still are mothers or not if we loose a child aro se in me. What if we miscarry before term? Are we still mothers? What are we? The answer after some reflection was very clear: YES WE ARE. In our hearts there is still the motherly love for the lost child, there is still the care for the life that was cut too short, there is still the incredible pain that can only be felt by someone who has actually been a mother... My plea to you: Do not forget or ignore those bereaved mothers, because after all they still ARE mothers just in a different way.

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