June has been The Sands Charity Awareness Month and they launched the Finding The Words Campaign. The aim of this is to break the silence around stillbirth and neonatal death by encouraging everyone to sensitively start a conversation with someone whose baby has died, however long ago. This is such an important campaign as baby loss is... Continue Reading →
Father’s Day After Loss
I can’t believe it is now my second Father’s Day without Poppy being here with us. A day that a year ago I was dreading so much. A day that I’m now bittersweet towards. Happy I get to enjoy the day with Reuben but sad Poppy isn’t here with us too. Father’s Day after baby... Continue Reading →
Dear Poppy – On The Eve Of Father’s Day
Dear Poppy How is it coming up to my second Father's Day without you here with us. I can't believe it's been a year since the last one. I really don't know how I've been able to make it between the two without you here. As it comes up fast I'm sat here in bed... Continue Reading →
Baby First Aid
Learning baby first aid is something I thought would be handy before Poppy was born. After she died and we were lucky enough to welcome Reuben into the world it was something I had my heart set on learning. After you have experienced the worst possible thing any parent can you are acutely aware of... Continue Reading →
Anxiety Of Missing Out
Over the past few weeks I’ve been looking in at myself and I’ve realised that I’ve still got anxieties of missing out on seeing Reuben’s first’s and development because of work. I get amazing time with him after work, on my day off and at weekends. So really I don’t need to worry but deep... Continue Reading →