Dossier
postpartum grief
Coverage of postpartum grief in the Nexus archive.
- My mom died 6 weeks after my son was born. Losing the woman I wanted to talk to the most reshaped motherhood for me.
The author lost her mother six weeks after giving birth to her second child, leading to a complex experience of grief during the postpartum period. Her mother's death reshaped her understanding of motherhood, emphasizing the absence of a key emotional support figure and altering how she parents.