Feel like a fraud for posting this but feel so terribly sad....

[OurLittleSecret]

A mum I know lost her little boy yesterday aged 2 to a tragic accident.

I know it's sad - but it really is so sad.

RIp lil man x

Of course it is sad. The death of a child is the most awful tragedy and as parents it scares us beyond anything else. Don't feel a fraud because you are touched by this horrible event.

Thank you northernlurker- just being human really and I guess being a mum. Extra snuggles for my girlies tonight- I have a daughter a similar age and it's just horrid to think of x

By no means a fraud OP. You are only human after all, and any death, especially a tragic one that includes a child is devastating.

I'm a nanny and one of my friends boss suffered a stillbirth very late on in pregnancy. We were all devastated because altho we didn't know the mum very well, we spent many times a week playing with her other child. I remember we cried openly at playgroup. Was a bit embarrassing, but, we concluded that who wouldn't be upset at the total unfairness of it all? We had all been looking forward to meeting her.

Our feelings of course were nothing compared to that of the family.

So sorry little man. RIP X

I know just how you feel...

My dd (5) lost one of her school friends a couple of months back and although I didn't know her or her family, it affected me deeply - I cried for ages

Any death of a child is horrible, because it's so unfair. I think we kind of expect adults to die but not children.

So sorry to hear of the loss of this child....it's very sad. I don't think you are a fraud at all x

I also know how you feel. DD1's teacher lost her toddler to leukeamia earlier on this year. Everytime I see her or think about her I feel so sad. (Her DD2 was the same age as my dd2 and her DD1 is a similar age to my DD1).

I get upset and then feel bad because however bad I feel about it, it is not apatch on the grief a parent must feel.

What you are feeling is very normal reaction to a very tragic event.

Thank you all x