A heartfelt reflection on Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025, finding strength in silence, honouring loss, and remembering it’s okay not to be ready to share.
When Your Heart’s Not Ready: Reflections on Baby Loss Awareness Week 💗
Author: forfrancesca
The Break I Didn’t Plan
For a long time, I carried the feeling that I had failed it. Failed the space I had created, failed the rhythm of writing, failed the people who had taken time to read. But mostly, I felt like I had failed myself. Writing has always been something I turned to when I needed clarity, and yet when I needed it most, I couldn’t find the words.
Live Forever?
When our daughter died in 2018, it was the worst thing that had ever happened to us. I thought that was the bottom, that nothing else could take us lower. I didn’t know it was just the start.
Maybe You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
Sometimes it’s not about right or wrong. Sometimes it’s just about honesty. Growth. Survival. And the hard truth is, not everyone will like who you become in the aftermath.
Probably Needed a Hug… ❤️
Thought I’d start writing again on my wee blog with the trend …Probably Needed a Hug… ❤️But I kept going anyway. I’ve been feeling the pull to write again. To open up my laptop, let the words fall out, and share a little bit more of the messy, totally unpredictable journey that’s brought me to [...]
Becoming 40
I recently turned 40 and do you know what, I'm 'A' OK with that! I'm happy to be moving forward into a new decade, a new chapter into more unexpected paragraphs in my life's biography. I'm feeling slightly liberated at being my now F*** IT FORTIES!! I can fully see why my gran reached a [...]
If You Could Rewind Your Time, Would You Change Your Life?
5 years on has brought a lot more smiles, laughs and a shit load of more dark humour than we as Glaswegians already have in abundance. I've lost count of the times we've said "if you don't laugh you'll greet" over the years with the downright funny AF real-life problems we've found ourselves in.
You’re My Star
I'm not really sure how to put this year's feelings into words. It's 4 days before Christmas and this year's festivities have been flooded with heartache and the fact that we will always have 1 of our children missing from our arms. She will never be here to help put the baubles on the tree [...]
I Miss The Old Me
This title sure sounds narcissistic to me, conceited even? But I do and I'm kind of lost at where to go next with it. For the last 4 years, I've been trying to cope with the death of our baby girl in any way I could. Most of them probably broke every "Get over grief" [...]
The Unsociable Social Media Manager
I remember the days well where I would've bloody died of embarrassment going for a coffee and sitting in somewhere myself but now, my god these small moments are bliss! I’m back #workingfromhome and I’m lucky enough to have been able to create a little office space for myself there but one thing that I [...]
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