It's important to talk from the beginning about the other children.
Pediatric psychologist and grief counselor Nancy Frumer Styron stresses the importance of acknowledging that there are other children/siblings and that there are many ways they will be impacted. A mom shares her perspective of how her younger daughter’s illness might have impacted her older sons. A couple discusses the professional counsel they received about what to tell their two-year old daughter about her baby sister’s illness.