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: stillbirth
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When One Door Closes
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 [...]
#FOLLOWFRIDAY – Charities
This weeks Follow Friday blog will be dedicated to bringing some awareness around the unbelievable selfless work that these charities continue to do each day. Some work under the radar with people never knowing just how invaluable these unsung heroes really are to our communities. They help hundreds of people , maybe even thousands , [...]
FOR FRANCESCA 
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