There are pains that are believed to be tamed with time. Laura was convinced. Five years earlier, she had left the maternity hospital with only one baby in her arms, convinced she had lost one of her twins. She had learned to live with this silent void. Until this Sunday at the park, where his little Lucas froze in front of a boy who looked like a reflection in a mirror… and whispered: “He was in your stomach with me. »
Losing a twin at birth: an impossible grief
Laura’s pregnancy was not easy. Alited from the seventh month, closely followed by her obstetrician, she respected all the medical recommendations. She spoke to her babies every night, imagining their future side by side.
Childbirth was difficult. Then the silence. When he woke up, the medical team announced that one of the two had not survived. Exhausted and still under the effect of anesthesia, it signs documents without fully measuring the scope. She goes home with Lucas and a huge grief.
Out of instinct for protection, she never talks to her son about her twin. She thinks of preserving it and concentrating all its energy on him: Sunday walks, complicit rituals, laughter at the edge of the pond.
But can we really silence a story that just needs to emerge?
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