<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress.com" -->
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
	xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
	xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
	xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
	>
<url><loc>https://frombureaucrattobabysteps.com/2026/06/11/watching-my-mother-fade-through-facetime-grief-distance-and-the-impossible-choices-of-motherhood/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Bureaucrat to Baby Steps</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-06-12T01:58:10+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Watching My Mother Fade Through FaceTime: A Tribute to a Woman Ahead of Her Time</news:title><news:keywords>family, motherhood, life, parenting, love, writing, caregiving, aging parents, grief, Motherhood Caregiving Aging Parents Family Grief Long Distance Family Bangladesh Dialysis End of Life Care Daughters and Mothers Parenting FaceTime Multigenerational Family Immigration Stories Persona, From Bureaucrats to Baby Steps, Personal Reflection, Immigration Stories, Multigenerational Family, FaceTime, End of Life Care, Dialysis, Bangladesh, Long Distance Family, Death, Tahera Rashid</news:keywords></news:news><image:image><image:loc>https://frombureaucrattobabysteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/mom.jpg?w=150</image:loc></image:image></url></urlset>