Maya Vanderis leaning on her kids as she grieves the loss of her third child.
In the photo, the siblings sweetly hug each other as they pose for the camera. “My oxygen,” Vander wrote of her children.
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Maya Vander/Instagram; Inset: Maya Vander/Instagram
The loving photo comes days after the mom opened up about hergrieving processover the holiday season, sharing that Christmas Eve “was the day Mason would have come home with us.”
“This is not the Christmas Eve I had envisioned,” she wrote alongside a photo of her family in front of their Christmas tree. “It’s been two weeks since I lost my child. I am smiling in the photo but I got to tell you, it’s been difficult. I never experienced grief this way. Our family is taking it one day at a time and we are just trying our best for the kids.”
Vander — who shares her kids with husband David Miller — added that she is “extremely grateful for all the kindness and messages I have been getting” and that she and Miller are “thankful for our children and know that it will be ok…”
“I want to wish all of you happy holiday season! I hope and have faith that after the storm comes the 🌈🙏,” the candid post concludes.
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Vander first shared the news of her pregnancy loss onInstagram, posting a photo of a memory box.
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Speaking toE! Newsshortly after her loss, Vander said she “wasso ready for a third kid,” adding, “it’s just not fair to him. I just don’t know what happened, so that’s the closure that I still don’t have.”
“I didn’t have the chance to connect to him as much but it just kills me that he didn’t get the love that I could’ve possibly given him, because I was ready,” she said.
While Vander and her husband don’t yet know what led to the stillbirth, they’re hoping an autopsy will provide answers.
source: people.com
