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 💗
Category: Blog
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.
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 [...]
ANOTHER FIRST, ANOTHER WAVE OF GRIEF
I’ve been feeling a bit off lately - like that feeling you get when the grief wave hits but this felt different somehow - I couldn’t work out why until I realised that subconsciously this would be the year our wee Francesca would be starting school this week. And it hit me like a ton [...]
Hello again…
I have really missed writing in my wee blog but I just couldn’t find my way back to it amongst the covid sh** show that had been the last couple of years. Like many others dealing with the loss of their child I had to work out a way to cope with the darkness and [...]
And Breathe …
And just like that, Baby Loss Awareness Week is over for another year but what an impact it left. I feel like in general the sheer amount of posts, stories , articles I seen have increased since 2018. I was so proud of each and every family who courageously shared their own traumatic stories. I [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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