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Frost and Earthquakes

May 21, 2010 by

7 weeks. Really? Only 7? I can hardly believe there was ever a part of our life that didn’t have Freddie as part of it. I was going to say in it, but that isn’t true. He’s not been in it for so much more time than he was. Already. That isn’t true either of […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Words

May 18, 2010 by

Every picture tells a story? A picture paints a thousand words? Words don’t mean anything? The problem with reality, even in the finger tips of a five year old spelling out the names of her family members, is it doesn’t always equal actual fact. And which is fact, 6… or 7?

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

The sun always rises.

May 15, 2010 by

There is some form of normality around, although too much of it is over laid by things which just aren’t normal and right now, if i’m honest, don’t feel like they ever will be. Reading this post on glow this week pretty much summed it up. The ripples really are everywhere. (Breaks to watch Dr […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Freddie, Gymnastics, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Blue

May 13, 2010 by

It’s been a month. A month since I held our baby boy in my arms and watched him breathe slower and slower until he stopped. A month since I watched his little fingers turn the wrong colour, covered them with a blanket as if to stop him being cold and didn’t call for help. A […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Amelie is 8

May 10, 2010 by

Happy Birthday (on the 8th) lovely girl 🙂 I’ve been thinking of words to describe you – vivacious, audacious, outrageous, exceptional, intelligent, competitive, focused, perceptive, delicate, dreadful, adorable. You’ve been spectacular since the minute you were born. These last few weeks, yet again, you’ve awed me with your intuitive ability to understand, to comfort, to […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Uncategorized

Boxes & Beginnings

May 9, 2010 by

Today has been a difficult day. Every day is difficult at the moment, mostly because of Freddie and then other stuff which is lying on top of that, or underneath, but which isn’t mine to blog about. I think it is fair to say that life feels a bit surreal at the moment. There is […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Knitting & Sewing, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, knitting, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Bitesize Education and Learning from Life

May 8, 2010 by

Sorry, this is supposed to be a blog about home educating; the politics and the tragedies seem to have gatecrashed 🙄 Mind you, i’d love to think that the politics could take a back seat now but i’m faintly worried we’re going to have to have a revolution first. I cannot believe that we’re in […]

Filed Under: Freddie, HE Politics, Home Education, Josie, Max Ed, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, educating at home, education outside school, grief, Home Education, home schooling, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death, teaching children at home

Was and Is

May 6, 2010 by

When i first found out i was expecting Freddie, i had just begun a course of study that centred, somewhat unusually for me, on trees. I was enjoying it very much and feeling very at peace with a new way of thinking about the world and my place in it. Then i had some bleeding […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Go quietly

May 6, 2010 by

Or actually, just go. Loudly, kicking and screaming, evicted by the army, hung trouser-less out of a window (defenestration is almost too good for you). I really don’t care. I spent most of my pregnancy with Freddie fretting and worrying about what the Labour Party might do to my family. By the end of it, […]

Filed Under: HE Politics, Uncategorized

Friends and Family

May 2, 2010 by

I’m struggling to remember the days properly. I seem to be regaining use of my faculties rather slowly, if i’m honest. When we came home from the hospital, i had literally lost the ability to control my body temperature, through shock or tiredness or 11 days in SCBU and shivered all night unless i was […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Letters to Freddie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

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