What to say to children to explain...

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I found it really easy talking to my kids about it. I just told them that mummy isn’t very well and it makes me sad and cry and sometimes I’m so poorly I can’t get out of bed. My eldest was amazing. He would come in to me and say “are you sad again mummy? I’ll give you a special hug to make you better”. Once during a very bad time I got into an argument with his Dad while he was there and without thinking said “I wish I was dead”. He couldn’t have been any older than 3 and after a while he came into the bedroom to give me one of his special cuddles and said “I don’t want you to be dead mummy”. That was a bit of a wake up call. When his works made me cry I had to explain they were happy tears because he was such a lovely boy.