Life After Baby Loss – My Story
As some of you will have seen in my last post, Introducing Silver Lining, The Lullaby Trust is a charity close to my heart. The lullaby trust has been especially fundamental in bereavement support for my husband Fabian through their befriender scheme. Personally, it wasn’t for me as I prefer speaking face to face but…
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For a while now I’ve been working on a secret project whilst dropping hints on my Instagram. I decided with my video for The Butterfly Awards to finally announce what I’ve been working on. Introducing Silver Lining! Silver lining represents the iconic catchphrase every cloud has a silver lining. Through my journey of baby loss…
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The Butterfly Awards are an amazing ceremony and dinner held each year honouring people within the baby loss community, from midwives, cherished keepsakes and the category I have been shortlisted for, inspirational mother. The event itself is hosted by Finley’s Footprints who offer a range of services including bereavement study days and hope coaching for…
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Travelling is a passion of mine. It’s not so much feasible as I’ve become an adult and actually have to pay for myself. I was very lucky as a child to be spoilt rotten and travel the world. I’ve visited America and Asia several times, explored Europe and even ventured to Australia and India. One…
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This is probably one of the most personal and cherished blog posts I’ll ever write, and perhaps one of the hardest. I feel with sharing my stories about the aftermath I should also share what led us to this point. I want to tell you Silver Rose’s story. Not only did we deliver prematurely but…
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Having a rainbow baby was not what I expected. There are things that I expected to find difficult that were in fact easy, and things I never expected to burden me with worry. Weaning is one of those things I didn’t expect to evoke so much emotion. I think some of my reluctancy comes from…
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With Mother’s Day coming up my thoughts recently have drifted back to this time last year. It was such a difficult time losing Silver and Mother’s Day being so soon afterwards. Mother’s Day itself was quite traumatic and my mental health hit an all time low. I’ve never really spoke about it until now. I…
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I recently spoke to someone who had opted for a medical termination for a baby who had a terrible illness known to be incompatible with life. It really got me thinking about what I would have done in that situation where there was a clear diagnosis and certainty of loss. With Silver it was the…
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I wish the title to this blog was clickbait. I couldn’t have made this up if I tried. I would normally complain and say “why me?” but you know what, instead I want to say Thank You. Thank you to Silver Rose, my angel in heaven. Or should I say my guardian angel. I couldn’t…
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Hello everyone! As you can maybe tell from my 10 Ways To Bond With Your NICU Baby blog post I am officially back to blogging! I don’t want to come on here and do a super lengthy post, I just wanted to quickly introduce Leilani but more details and the birth story will be coming…
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