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 💗
Tag: babyloss
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 [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
#BLAW2019 Guest Blog: A Letter From A Midwife
A message from the author, Sara Fitzsimmons MBE, RM: "I wrote these words a few years ago when I was still practicing at the hospital as a midwife, it was a few days after I had spent quite a bit of time with a couple and their family in triage, their baby was at full [...]
Baby Loss Awareness Week 2019
“Together we can break the silence and call for improvements in services, care and support for families affected by the death of a baby.” Tragically every year thousands of parent suffer the loss of their much loved little baby's. There really are no words to describe the grief that you suffer. Its palpable. It consumes [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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