Rhianna Lily our little girl born sleeping in 2012.
An Angel from the Book of Life
Wrote down my baby’s birth,
And whispered as she closed the book
“Too Beautiful for Earth”
This is Rhianna Lily’s space, her story, and how we carry on living our life without her here with the rest of us!
We knew that Rhianna had died, three days before she was born, so we knew what we were doing when we went into hospital and into the delivery suite, because we and the midwives knew what has happening, we were taken to a room slightly …
Recently we have had lots of discussions about whether people’s families are complete and if they are done having babies. It is something I really struggle with personally. Whenever anyone asks me they get the same response, “we are done” But that doesn’t mean we are complete. We will never …
Last week was Rhianna’s birthday. And as per usual it was a hard week. We spent a lot of the week trying to decide what to do for her birthday because for the first time since her first birthday Mr L and I were on …
I decided yesterday that Rhianna’s flowers that Boo picked on the first of the month would need to be replaced today. After Baba had cubs we had to nip to the shops, and we decided then that he would choose her next bunch of flowers …
Fifteen days ago, we brought our first bunch of flowers for Rhianna Lily. Fifteen days later, they are still going strong, and have just started to turn. They have been the longest bunch of flowers ever. They are still looking beautiful. And brighten up our …
Yesterday I wrote about Baba’s idea of a month of flowers for Rhianna Lily. Today I saw these flowers in our front garden. At first I didn’t know what they were and was baffled where they had come from. Then after some chatting with a …
It’s March and it has hit hard. Last week I didn’t sleep at all to be honest, and then went down with a horrible viral thing, that I just could not shake. It’s strange how your body deals with grief and how it makes you …
One thing I have learnt since Rhianna died is that every year since it isn’t just her birthday that is hard. It is something that lasts for such a long time. And Mr L and I literally have to drag ourselves through a long time …
These last two weeks have flown by and before I have known it, the day has gone and I haven’t really stopped. It has been my birthday which was lovely, I had a birthday that fell on the weekend which meant that all the boys …
This week Coronation Street are doing a stillbirth storyline, or a technically speaking ‘late miscarriage’ I hate this term with a passion and will discuss it more in a bit. I am not a massive Coronation Street fan, if it is on I will watch …