Allison Hanes: Breaking the silence surrounding baby loss

Désirée McGraw’s daughter Catherine came into the world last August, a bundle of joy and a deep abyss of sorrow, wrapped snugly in a striped, flannel hospital blanket.
Catherine was stillborn at 36 weeks. Her heart had simply stopped beating in her mother’s belly, likely due to complications from a virus McGraw had contracted.
After Catherine emerged, dead on arrival, her devastated family was in a race against time to count her fingers and toes, admire her rosebud lips