Grief takes no prisoners, it doesn’t care if you are having a good spell, a good month, week, day or even hour. If it wants to attack it will. And when it attacks, it attacks. This year I did quite well. I was looking forward …
Today marks the start of baby loss awareness week. 1 in 4 families are affected by baby loss or infant loss, and it has come to light that many people don’t know how to offer support to people affected or are too scared to bring …
There is nothing more to say than this. I am a mother to four children. But I only have two beside me. Two physically growing in front of our eyes. But there should be six of us. Not just four. Rhianna Lily died. She died …
A couple of days ago I was involved in a twitter chat with a lot of lovely woman about what happens, and the support you get when your baby dies in the UK. I then read Jennie’s post on Bereavement Support After A Baby Dies and …
Everyone who reads this blog knows that I openly support the work that Saying Goodbye does for family and friends of people who have lost babies and children, but I had not managed to get to one of their services. I was supposed to go …
Since losing Rhianna Lily, we have been surrounded by support from all sorts of people. Family, friends, and people that we barely know on-line and off-line. It is amazing that people just start talking to you about their losses and you don’t realise that there …
Today I am handing over Rhianna Lily’s blog to her Daddy, Mr L, he doesn’t say a lot about Rhianna Lily he grieves quietly, he is a man of little words, and he is not a writer but everything he thinks he has written down …
Following on from Rhianna Lily’s Birth Part Two… I woke periodically throughout the night, either with midwife checks, or the nebulizer being put back on as my breathing was bad. Every time it was the same, look to the right to see Mr L who …