A Dad's Take On Navigating Life and Parenting A Rainbow Baby After Loss
Dear Poppy I miss you. Plain and simple. How has it almost been 2 years since we had to say goodbye. So much has happened and so much should have happened. Poppy I wish you were here so much, Daddy misses you every second. I miss your little hands. I miss putting my finger in... Continue Reading →
After Poppy died I always wanted to do something for charity to raise money in her name to give her a legacy to be proud of. I ended up deciding to run. Little did I know how much it would help me with my grieving for Poppy. Along with talking to Emily, running just really... Continue Reading →
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 →
In the aftermath of Poppy dying my head spun in a thousand different directions. How will I copy? How will we cope? What do we do now? Now do we move forward with life? I had no idea but opening up and talking was a must. I struggled in the early days but I did... Continue Reading →
Dear Poppy Bear So we’re off to London Town again. We’ve not been since you were growing in Mummy’s tummy. I can’t believe it’s been so long since then. We went down full of hope and excitement for your arrival later that year. While I know it’s going to strange being back there, it is... Continue Reading →
Poppy's Story 28/10/16-31/10/16 So this is the story of my beautiful daughter Poppy Evie-Anne Goodchild. Emily and I had always wanted children and we’d had names picked out for as long as I can remember. Boys names changed every now and then but Poppy always stuck for a girl. When we found out we were... Continue Reading →
Dear Poppy, We did it baby girl. We had your inquest and we got through it for you. It has been such a hard few days, so painful having to relive it all and so overwhelmingly emotional. Its really taken it out of Mummy and me. It was all worth it because it was for... Continue Reading →
