These Precious Little People

I've written before about talking to my living children about their sister who died before they were born ( here ), and the kind of language we have found useful to use within our family ( here ). Esme being our first child meant that we were able to take the pressure off a little to get it right immediately - we had time and space to process things ourselves and get our heads around how we wanted to explain things to them as they grew up - but there have still been difficult

Thank you so much to Kirsty and her eldest daughter India for sharing their experiences as part of our Forgotten Mourners series during...

Thank you so much to Emma and her son George for sharing their experiences as part of our Forgotten Mourners series during Children's...

November is Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month. Children’s Grief Awareness Week UK, 15th - 21st November 2019, founded by childhood...

Following on from my blog post about talking to my rainbow babies about their big sister who came before them, I wanted to outline how...

Talking about death with children is hard, but I have found the concept particularly delicate to navigate given my circumstances and propensity to over-analyse many situations, and doubt myself. My two living children are under 5 years old, both born after the death of their sister Esme, my firstborn, to unexplained stillbirth. As with many aspects of parenting after loss (or even just parenting in general!), I often feel I am very much still making this up as I go along, but

Autumn is a season adored by many: leaves turning stunningly beautiful fiery tones, a chill appearing in the air, evenings suddenly...

Although the tide seems to be turning, and each year since my daughter Esme died back in 2013 I have seen more and more awareness raised...

This is not a new dilemma for us. As soon as Esme died it tilted our world on its axis. Our lives were forever divided into 'before' and...

I have heard a lot in recent years about breaking the silence that exists around the death of a baby. It is heartening to see many more...