Why understanding what happened… isn’t always the same as your body knowing it’s over When my daughter Anna Sophia Rose was stillborn, people told me a lot about grief. There were support groups. A team in the hospital we could talk to. And lots of recommendations about grief and what the weeks and months after losing a child might look like. People told me about the heartbreak, that grief comes in waves, and that you can feel okay for days and then seeing a little girl in a