“It would have been better to see my dead son, say goodbye”: the Venezuelan who seeks to break the taboo of “fetal mourning”

  • Alicia Hernandez @por_puesto
  • BBC News World

3 mayo 2022

image source, Courtesy Ileana Garcia Mora

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Ileana thought she was going to be a normal mother but she lost her first son, Matías, at week 38.

“I thought I was going to be a normal mom. And I was an empty-arms mom.”

Ileana García Mora corrects herself: “We are all normal. Life and death are natural processes, but one is more painful than the other.”

She defines herself as an activist for perinatal mourning, making it visible and talking regarding what to do when a child dies: “It is important to have information at hand, that mothers have options and, those close to them, minimum tools to touch the duel.

Because there was a time when she made decisions without knowing, in the midst of pain. Or where she had to listen to things like “better this way, that the body discards what is not useful.”

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