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: family
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mat Leave Shambles!
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 [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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