Healing after pregnancy, infant and child loss
River Eve. She was born 4 days after Christian’s 1st birthday and 7 days before Scarlett’s 2nd birthday. If you have met River you would know that she is a crazy, beautiful, energetic, artistic, ADVENTUROUS (3 broken bones before the age of 20 months) naughty little girl who can get away with almost anything because [...]
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May your children feel so very close to you. May they visit you in your sleep. May you find the time to be still, to calm your heart and to feel peace. May you find their love in the whisper of the breeze and in the stillness of the evening sky. May you be in [...]
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She cuddles up in my arm chair with me whilst I treat photographs. Sometimes she stays there with me for hours on end. Every afternoon she falls asleep on me in my studio. I could put her into bed but she will only be this little for the shortest of times. I am one blessed [...]
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Emotions About This New Little Life You Are Carrying Falling pregnant after enduring the loss of a baby at any age or gestation can be an emotional rollercoaster. Your innocence has been taken from you. There is not blissful pregnancy anymore. You may feel anxious, worried, frightened, excited, joyful and thankful all in the one [...]
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Every smiling face in this photograph has either known a world of pain or witnessed a patient expereice the death of their baby. You wouldn’t think that though would you? All those happy looking women. Well we are smiling because together we are using our experiences for a greater good. Last Friday on August 19th [...]
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To find out more about this very special day please click on the image to take you to our Day of HOPE home page. With love and blessings to you.
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This week I just had to share on how Score Music heals and inspires me. This photo was taken the day before my beloved Granddad passed away. It was such an intense time emotionally for me. After my Granddad died my cousin Holly shared a piece of music with me. She thought it would be [...]
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Scarlett told me this afternoon that these little sweet hearts in the sand at her school were drawn for all the “sad mummies and daddies”. She melts my heart.
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This was given to me in a little brown paper bag yesterday. It was made by my beautiful friend Amy. She works with me on Luminous Light. Amy made it for me, you know, just because. I wrote this quote when I first began drawing the butterflies on the Christian’s Beach just over a year [...]
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About a month ago I received an email from a lady in Ireland. Her name is Maeve and she had contacted me after finding my website through her daughter just days beforehand. I have read many stories from people all over the world. They are all mostly heartbreaking, however Maeve’s story really pulled at my [...]
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I have always felt somewhat lost on this road I am walking. I don’t really mind being lost. But there are some aspects of this road where I really wish that I was found. We cremated Christian. I don’t think I have ever regretted it, but I have always envyed those who buried their babies. [...]
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Today would have been my Granddad’s 88th birthday. 88. What a life. This photo is the last photo I have of Griz. It was taken 7 weeks before he died. That is my Nan on the left. Her name is Shirley. Isn’t she beautiful? I love this photograph. Three days after Griz died I found [...]
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Today I visited my Nan. Whilst I was there I spent some time sitting in my Granddad’s workshop. It was his favourite place. It was so silent and still in there. The only movement came from tiny dust particles floating in the air through the rays of sunlight from outside that warmed the workshop. It [...]
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Image: The Luminous Light Trees filled with the names of babies missed by their mothers this International Babylost Mothers Day in Perth, Western Australia. The definition of a mother: A female who falls pregnant or gives birth to a child. Why is it then that women who have lost their babies and children are forgotten [...]
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Last year in the lead up to International Babylost Mothers Day I asked my friend Angie from still life 365 to write a poem for our special day. She so kindly did and there are no words to describe how beautiful it really is. Tomorrow this poem will be read out aloud at events all [...]
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