How to interprete these は and parse the sentence


The sentence in question: 亡くなったことを知った当初は息子と会うことは考えられなかったという女性。

For full context:
<https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/web_tokushu/2018_1130.html?utm_int=news_contents_tokushu_002>

My attempt at translation: "A woman who knew it had died and originally
couldn't think of meeting the child. [now follows her dialogue, see the
article)"

So, first off, I don't know whether I should treat these は in the sentence as
topic or contrast markers. In my translation I more or less just tried to
figure out a halfway meaningful translation, because I was even more confused
by 当初 preceding the first は. As I understood the content, this woman already
knew the child was dead before it was born, and even though she couldn't
imagine meeting it, she then asked for it (see context). Thats why I related
当初 to the 息子と会うことは考えられなかった part, in a way. But as I said, I'm thoroughly
clueless on how to deal with this sentence correctly^^




> **亡くなったことを知った当初は息子と会うことは考えられなかった** という女性。

First of all, we can see that the whole bolded part is linked to the so called
"quotation particle" と. So it's all what the 女性 "says" (いう).

> 亡くなったことを知った当初

If we take this part individually, we can translate it literally by something
like " _at first/the beginning (当初) I knew (知った) about the fact (こと) (he) died
(亡くなった)_ " which would be " _at the moment I knew he died_ " in (more or less)
good English.

> 息子と会うことは考えられなかった

This part can be interpreted as " _I couldn't think (考えられなかった) about the fact
(こと) of meeting with my son (息子と会う)_ " = " _I couldn't think about seeing my
son_ ".

Now you can just put the parts together and you something like:

> A woman who says at the moment she knew her son passed away, she couldn't
> think about seeing him.

Basically the woman was told her son was dead because she didn't feel it
anymore, and when she "gave birth" to her dead son, the 助産師 asked her if she
would see him or not.




> **亡くなったことを知った当初は息子と会うことは考えられなかった** という女性。

First of all, we can see that the whole bolded part is linked to the so called
"quotation particle" と. So it's all what the 女性 "says" (いう).

> 亡くなったことを知った当初

If we take this part individually, we can translate it literally by something
like " _at first/the beginning (当初) I knew (知った) about the fact (こと) (he) died
(亡くなった)_ " which would be " _at the moment I knew he died_ " in (more or less)
good English.

> 息子と会うことは考えられなかった

This part can be interpreted as " _I couldn't think (考えられなかった) about the fact
(こと) of meeting with my son (息子と会う)_ " = " _I couldn't think about seeing my
son_ ".

Now you can just put the parts together and you something like:

> A woman who says at the moment she knew her son passed away, she couldn't
> think about seeing him.

Basically the woman was told her son was dead because she didn't feel it
anymore, and when she "gave birth" to her dead son, the 助産師 asked her if she
would see him or not.

