Loneliness is a frequent visitor to a woman who feels disconnected from husband, family, friends, and God. Her isolation is particularly heightened when she believes she is the only one mourning her baby or acknowledging the baby’s existence. “I have found so few want to talk about this,” Ruth writes. “It is such a lonely experience because it is so individual.” Encounters with pregnant women or mothers of living infants become especially painful. Jodi recalls that the first baby shower