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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lenny Stephen Cross is our first son. He was born on 1st August 2014 at 25 weeks and 3 days and lived for a very short 10 hours. This is our story. Lenny was due in November 2014. When I found out I was pregnant, I was so excited about spending our first Christmas as [...]
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 [...]
Celebrating Family - In Honour of New Beginnings Did you know there are some very human ways to have a naming or welcoming ceremony? I love them! They instantly give a sense of connecting and magical passion to life. Hello, I’m Diane Mcleish Humanist Celebrant. I’m a mum, a Nana, a happily committed partner to [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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