What actually helps in this first year is less dramatic than most advice suggests. Expect the grief to resurface at administrative and calendar moments rather than only in obviously emotional ones, and don’t read that resurgence as a setback.

Every other mom on the playground seems so happy… Leslie S.*, age 44 As I look around the playground, all the other moms seem so happy. I watch them cheerfully pushing their children on the swings or hanging out and sharing the latest recipes and home decorating trends. After all the years as an “older […]