The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. After several years of trying to get pregnant and an arduous IVF cycle, my sister was finally pregnant. But last Tuesday, they couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat. As she navigates through her grief, I am trying to fill the spaces of what I know is heart wrenching pain. I am hopelessly inadequate in the face of this tragedy, yet I must somehow find a way to “be present” as she and my brother in-law attempt to reconstruct reality after their loss. Read the full story