For my fellow humans who haven’t walked the path of motherhood, I explain my experience like this :

Imagine having the most loving pet. Maybe a dog or cat that loves you beyond words. And you love them back with your entire heart, and more.

You brush their hair lovingly, take them to play in the park, buy their favorite toys and foods, put colorful barrettes in their hair, care for them when they’re sick, and snuggle on the sofa with them.

Day in, day out. For 25 years.

Then one day they walk out of the house unannounced and disappear. You don’t know where they are. You can’t contact them or find them. And you don’t know what happened.

You’re left with a hole in your heart the size of Alaska and just one word : why?

*ps - almost forgot - also imagine they lived in your body for 9 months and you pushed them out of your sacred passage and brought them into existence.