Grieving | My Introduction to Being a Widowed Parent | Balanced wheel

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I had earlier written about the ripple effects that a loved one’s death brings, known as secondary losses.
In this post I’ll like to introduce you to another dimension of my grief journey which is my journey as a widowed parent highlighting the challenges, adventures, lessons learnt etc.…
Grief is multidimensional and has a unique way of leaving its fingerprint on every area of one’s life.
Our journey into parenthood had begun. Chidinma and I were parents to a toddler (two years) and a baby (five months) when she died.
I was preparing the children’s breakfast on the morning of 30th March 2020 when I received ‘the phone call’ that completely change my life as I knew it.
The phone call was from the hospital to inform me that my wife had died. Minutes earlier, before the phone call, the children and I were chatting, making noise and laughing.
My mind became foggy with increased confusion about the future. I saw our hopes and dreams about our children’s future forcefully snatched from me.
Many questions flooded my mind. Among them were
I thought, how do I break the news to our children that their mother has died? How do I tell them they have suddenly become motherless? Will they even understand? Should I tell them? How do I tell them in a way they understand?
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