السبت، 25 مارس 2017

Motherless mothers: the one I need to share all this weight of love is not here

Soon after discovering she was pregnant, the ITV newsreader Charlene White felt the pain of losing her mother all the more keenly

It’s been a while since I last completely bawled my eyes out. Where you can’t see for tears, you’re snotty, and you can barely breathe through the pain, which runs deeper than you remember. A pain deep in the pit of your stomach, that morphs into a sound you barely recognise – and then you realise the sound is coming from you.

I hadn’t felt the depth of that pain for many years – not since a couple of years after Mum died. I think I had almost forgotten what it felt like … but it came in a wave without warning just weeks after I realised I was pregnant.

In Caribbean culture, the mum is around a lot in the early days of the baby being born

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2n3EfQ9

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