Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

Pregnant Without Your Mom: The Grief, the Questions and Who to Lean On

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

Being pregnant without your mom can bring her loss back hard, even years later, because so much of pregnancy is shaped like her: the questions, the milestones, the person you'd call first. That's a normal grief response. You can tell your OB or midwife, find people to answer some of what she would have, and get help quickly if the sadness starts to feel heavier than grief.