by Sophie | Aug 22, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
Tommy’s have recently been running pieces on how pregnancy after loss affects your mental health. It’s also been covered in Leo’s Legacy #babylossawarenesshour on twitter. I was asked to comment on this topic by Tommy’s a few years back. At that point, I actually had...
by Sophie | Aug 17, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
When do you tell your living children that they had a sibling who died? Let me give you some context … My best friend gave us one of those nice things you can buy online where you get your kids names made out of scrabble pieces and they interlock. Liberty, Cosmo and...
by Sophie | Aug 12, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
I just read a piece by a friend of mine from a parenting site, entitled ‘Why we should all show a bit more sympathy for the moody mum with a pushchair’. Brilliantly written, this piece explains that, when you see a moody, tired mum who runs you off the pavement, she...
by Sophie | Aug 9, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
I came across the term ‘continuing bond’ last year, when a colleague and now friend of mine, (then student), created a fantastic music project for his Masters Final. He wrote an album of songs about and in some sense WITH his late older sister (using her recordings)....
by Sophie | Aug 7, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
I first heard about this from a songwriter friend, whose older sister had committed suicide when he was a teenager. Her death was a very long time ago, but he recognised that, in many ways, he was either still grieving, had not grieved effectively or was still in some...
