{"id":22248,"date":"2026-07-13T21:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:13:32","slug":"seven-years-after-my-loss-something-shifted-inside-me-when-a-child-at-the-playground-said-something-i-never-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=22248","title":{"rendered":"Seven years after my loss, something shifted inside me when a child at the playground said something I never expected."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seven years after leaving the hospital without my newborn son, I had finally learned to live with the heartbreak. Then one ordinary afternoon at a playground, a little boy ran straight to me, hugged me tightly, and called me \u201cMom.\u201d His single word stopped me in my tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, his mother rushed over to apologize but froze as she looked at me, saying I reminded her of someone from a difficult time years earlier. We shared a quiet, uneasy moment before she gently took her son and walked away. I never got the answers I longed for, but that unexpected encounter reminded me that love never truly fades\u2014it stays with us in ways we least expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Seven years after leaving the hospital without my newborn son, I had finally learned to live with the heartbreak. Then one ordinary afternoon at a playground, a little boy ran straight to me, hugged me tightly, and called me \u201cMom.\u201d His single word stopped me in my tracks. Moments later, his mother rushed over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22250,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions\/22250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}