Sharing my new normal type of motherhood
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 [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
So my maternity leave finished and my work forgot all about me. Yip, what a way to start off this piece eh?. Lets take it back a bit and explain a little back story. After our wee one died I was broken and couldn't find a way back to the life I once had, the [...]
This week, Steven and I had the absolute honour of being guests of Our Missing Peace Charity and SiMBA Charity at the second child bereavement event which was held at the Garden Lobby of the Scottish Parliament. This event was hosted by Mary Fee MSP and titled , "Breaking the silence" , which was intended [...]
So there we have it, the door was officially closed on our happy little home and now we're off on adventures new. I can't say it was easy packing up our old life. I think I spent the weeks before we handed the keys in a complete emotional mess. An absolute state of affairs if [...]
I’m Zains Mummy aka Emma, Emz whatever you want to call me...and this is my story.. On the 21st October 2017 by complete surprise as I’ve always been one for irregular periods etc so never thought of taking tests I found out I was 4 weeks pregnant...I was so happy, elated, excited, the thing I [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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