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Parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds: come here to share the technicolour, the vividness, the despair, the heart-broken-open, the compassion we learn for others, having been through this mess — and see it reflected back at you, acknowledged and understood.

Thanks to photographer Xin Li and to artist Stephanie Sicore for their respective illustrations and photos.

for one and all > The flu shot discussion

Hi all. It was brought to our attention at Glow that a particular thread had devolved into a debate on vaccines, and so we've removed the thread. We've certainly seen discussion here before that has reached into that territory, but in this case it just became too heated.

This is not a space to make medical recommendations or pit readers on one or another side of a debate such as this. It's a place to support and be vulnerable—and if we allow threads to introduce questions of blame or connect the loss of a child to a particular reason, we heighten the stress of each other rather than easing it. Let's not do that.

Thanks loves. xo
August 21, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKate Inglis