by Sophie | Sep 22, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
To Myself in January 20th 2011 Dear Sophie, I love you. You might think that doesn’t make sense or it isn’t important, but it’s the most important thing of all. I know what has happened. I know that Liberty, your baby girl, has died and that yesterday was her funeral....
by Sophie | Sep 19, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
Last week I went to the ‘Baby Loss Hour Live’ event. This was a meeting up of lots of people who are active on social media in relation to baby loss and are parents who have lost babies. Everything about this group is brilliant in my view; it’s inclusive, sensitive,...
by Sophie | Sep 18, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
It is easy for Mother’s who’s babies have died to blame themselves, and I have certainly been around that block a number of times, and at length, over the years. The new Tommy’s campaign #tellmewhy highlights how, often times, we mothers blame ourselves because,...
by Sophie | Sep 15, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
There are many ‘normal’ questions that people ask Mothers in the course of a ‘normal’ carefree life … (I, of course, recognise that no one has either a normal or a carefree life. That’s just something that one family once had in a not very good book.. ) But anyway,...
by Sophie | Sep 7, 2019 | Liberty's Mother
There has been a lot about ‘First day at school’ on social media this week. It was my youngest’s Rocco’s first day. This has been hard, as so many times are, for parents of children who should be present, but are not. I really appreciated Rob Delaney’s tweet on...
