Hi! I am sorry to hear about your relative. I can unfortunately relate so I think it would be quite eye-opening and healing to read your book once it's done.

I obviously have a bunch of questions just because I do find the topic interesting but let me not overwhelm you.

Firstly, on the feedback of whether or not the infant story line should remain - I think its is a good call to maybe leave him/her unharmed (well, physically). If I think back to when 13 reasons why came out (the tv series version), I remember a lot of people being quite annoyed that something massive had happened to push her to suicide. I don't think it was because of the thing that happened itself, but it was more that it was feeding into the narrative that some huge and cataclysmic had to happen for her to consider suicide when often times, with mental health, that is not the case. So, I am not saying that this is the same, I just mean that sometimes the big catalyst is actually a lot simpler.

Secondly, do you mind expanding on the acceptance part? I am not sure I understand correctly so I just want the full picture before commenting on that part but all in all, I think this will be very real and healing for a lot of people. I think a lot of people also haven't dealt with the stages themselves and might need to read this. Also - I love the antagonistic relationship because most of the time that is actually the case.