You know you’re a bereaved mother when:
You look at the family portrait or dinner table and always think, “But someone’s missing.”
Your Facebook feed is full of grief support group posts and bereaved parent memes, and you have a Pinterest board for child loss quotes.
Old friends with living children stop calling and all your new friends belong to the sad club of “my child died too.”
Your child’s birthday is spent tending to their grave instead of wrapping gifts and eating birthday cake.
Someone wishes you a happy Mother’s Day and tears of anger and grief well in your eyes.