There is absolutely no satisfaction in the world like placing a bet on your own creative vision, and then living each small triumph as step by step that faith and determination pays off.

Dear Sophie,
These are dark, dark days and it seems impossible to imagine that happiness and light can lie ahead in your future, but it does.

The song ‘I Can Love You From Here’ is about love’s triumph over grief. Because grief is incredibly hard, but in the end, love is stronger, and the love that Liberty left behind has made us all strong

Many parents don’t get the choice to find out the reason for their babies death. Liberty’s placenta died early. If that had been spotted, it’s likely that Liberty would have been born safe and well.

I try to make my peace with it on a daily basis, but I can tell you that it was not an easy task to give away my travel cot. No, I am not ‘done’. I do not feel ‘done’. And I never will.

It was my youngest’s Rocco’s first day at school this week. A hard week for parents of children who should be present, but are not. I appreciated Rob Delaney’s tweet on this, because I think about Liberty each year school starts.

Last weekend I met Lizzie Simmonds’ Mum at dinner. Her mum and my mum are friends. They seem to think Lizzie and I have common ground; we are both strong, confident, hard working, resilient… survivors even. It got me thinking about how I’d been swimming often, but not really swum – hard – without fear, since Liberty died.

I did not relax and enjoy my two pregnancies that followed Liberty’s Stillbirth. I just about survived them..

When I came back from America with the record, we sat together and listened. Rocco started crying in a sweet, quiet way, and said ‘I wish she was here’. Cosmo calmly explained that ‘We do too, but that’s OK’