Almost a Mother: Love, Loss, and Finding Your People When Your Baby Dies

"After my infant twins died, I couldn't find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest."

I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn't meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losing my twins, what I wanted to know more than anything was that I was not crazy.

Christy, a fourth-grade teacher, ...