In the car, driving to the grocery store:
Bowie: Mama, do you have a new baby?
Me: uuuummmm, what?
Bowie: Do you have a new baby? The baby in your belly?
I did tell him a few times that there was a “baby in my belly”. But that was it. And I haven’t said a word since the miscarriage.
Me: Uh, there’s not a baby in my belly.
Bowie: Yes, there is a baby in your belly!
Me: Well…that baby got a boo boo and had to go away.
Bowie: Oh. [pause] I can get it back!
Me: I wish we could, but that baby is gone forever. We will have to work really hard to make a new one.
Bowie: Yes. Because I want to have a baby in my family.
Never thought I’d have to have that conversation. Poor kid. It must be hard to comprehend stuff like that. Lord knows it’s tough for adults.
Poor Mom. You handled it well.
@BeingSuper
Well done. Sometimes the hardest conversations are the ones we least expect will come up. Kids are awesome at blind-siding us!
Oh, my heart.
Children absorb so much more than we can even imagine. You did very well with a conversation that had to have been difficult for you.