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 💗
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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.
Kicks Count…
"If you think your baby’s movements have slowed down or stopped, contact your midwife or maternity unit immediately (it is staffed 24 hours, 7 days a week). Do not put off calling until the next day to see what happens. Do not worry about phoning, it is important for your doctors and midwives to know if [...]
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail
June in Scotland usually means the chance of a "wee bitta" sun for us up here north of the border, that's only if were lucky right enough! But this year June means the start of something MUCH more exciting as it marks the start of Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail. I was kindly asked along [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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