With A Stillborn Baby, There's No Past To Be Mourned

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/0607/1224298494116.html

Later, I learn what it means to be family, what it means to have friends. I learn about what to ask from each during my long, slow return. I learn, too, there is no tidy timetable to grieving, no milestones that can be marked off neatly with a tick: been there, done that. It is a process, one that ebbs and flows, that cuts the ground from underneath your feet one day, supports and soothes you the next.