The reality of baby loss sunk in,
other peoples experiences floated in and out of my head, and I struggled to believe that all would be okay.
According to Newton's Second Law of Motion (F = ma), if the venerable Queen Mary were set to
float freely, absent any
other forces, and a line attached to the bow were to be pulled by even just one
person, the ship would respond immediately to the steady application of that force by
experiencing a very tiny acceleration in the direction of applied force.