Who is a Bereaved Mother?

~ Author Unknown 

A Bereaved Mother is someone who stands at a grave wondering how she is going to live the rest of her life without this child

A Bereaved Mother is someone who thinks and fears that she will spend the rest of her life with this horrendous feeling inside.  

A Bereaved Mother is someone who learns she can think again of happy moments instead of the horror that surrounds her child’s death

A Bereaved Mother is someone who has to learn how to live all over again

A Bereaved Mother is someone who has to start new traditions in her family because the old ones no longer work

A Bereaved Mother is someone who wishes they would take Mothers Day out of the calendar

A Bereaved Mother is someone who only has the past left of her child

A Bereaved Mother is someone who has to learn to accept the loss of her beloved child and uses what she has learned to help others

A Bereaved Mother is someone who can again learn to smile, to look forward to the future and excited again because other moms, who were just like her "bereaved moms themselves" were there when she needed them