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“Can Finley Come To My Birthday Party?”
Sending balloons to her brother in the sky. It’s not that often I am stumped. Stunned. Unable to figure out an option. I problem solve for a living. I can suggest good ideas for most people’s problems....
View ArticleAmanda Holden – Hospital Heartbreak
In the last few years there has been a very welcome, gradual move to more openness from hospitals and more public speaking about baby loss. It remains a taboo subject but many places are working hard...
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How To Cut The Stillbirth Rate In Half
50% less stillbirths = 50% less heartache 50% less of this? We should do everything possible right? A massive claim right? Cut the stillbirth rate in half? It can’t be possible, right? I can imagine...
View ArticleNot cried out yet…
I thought I had this grief thing cracked. I thought it didn’t hurt anymore. I thought I’d figured it all out. That I had my way to include my son in my life. To balance loving his memory, with living...
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Since That Day…
Since That Day There Is Always One Missing. On 2nd August 2009 Finley John Scott was one of 11 babies in the Uk who were stillborn. Over 4000 babies would join him in that year. 2.6 million babies were...
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Capture Your Grief. Day 1. Sunrise
Sunrise Ok, I cheated a little as I forgot to photograph the sunrise when I woke up! This is a photograph of the sunrise in Tenerife, on our first holiday at Christmas time 2009. It was our first...
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Capture Your Grief. Day 2. Heart
#CaptureYourGrief Day 2 – Heart. We Held An Angel In Our Arms, He Left His Footprints On Our Hearts. That saying has been true from the very early days in the hospital, those words are on his final...
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Capture Your Grief. Day 3. Before.
It’s strange how my life is catalogued in my head, into Before and After. It’s hard to pick a picture which captures what before was like. Before was a length of time. 30 years. 3 decades. Some of it...
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Capture Your Grief. Day 4. Now.
#captureyourgrief Day 4. Now. This is another difficult prompt to capture with one image, and my perception of my now changes frequently. My now currently is filled with a battle with depression and...
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Capture Your Grief. Day 6. Books.
I love books. Ever since I was a little child I have buried my nose in a book, and lost myself. You’d always find me attached to one, walking along, in the bath, on the sofa. Everywhere. I always...
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