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Funding Cuts Will Affect Future Stillbirth Rates
We are numbed to the news of funding cuts in this country now, hearing it daily on the news. Today’s news reports on how funding cuts have directly halted progress on the reduction of UK stillbirth...
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Royal Baby – Why I’m not celebrating yet.
As World news is filled with speculation about the imminent birth of the royal baby, this blog post explains why I cannot comment on posts about it and why I cannot get excited yet. In fact this post...
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Coping with Traumatic Child Death Featured in the News.
It can be difficult for bereaved parents to cope with hearing the news of children being killed on the television, in media, in the newspapers. This post shares strategies for managing feelings of...
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Happy 4th Heavenly Birthday Finley.
Eyes forever gently closed, Mummy's cute little button nose. Oh my angel, why did you go? I miss you more than you could know. To My Finley, Wow, it has been four years since you slipped quietly into...
View ArticleYour help please?
I am looking for several bereaved parents to share their stories, to help with a project I am working on. I cannot yet explain the project, however will do if you are interested in helping. I have...
View ArticleBaby Loss Study Recruiting UK Bereaved Fathers
I often get approached by father’s who feel totally alone and unsupported after the death of their baby through stillbirth, late miscarriage, and neo natal death. There is little available that...
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Community?
Fours years ago I walked out of hospital without my stillborn son. I discovered a whole community of Angel Parents – parents that have lost a baby to ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, neo natal death,...
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Capture Your Grief Day 1
Capture Your Grief is a project which runs for the whole of October. These are my posts to capture my grief. Sunrise in Tenerife - XMAS day 2009 Sunrise: Day 1. Sunrise. The sunrise on October 1st in...
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Capture Your Grief Day 2
Capture Your Grief is a project which runs for the whole of October. These are my posts to capture my grief. Day 2 – Identity. Finley. Finley was named Finley because it is the only name myself and his...
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Capture Your Grief Day 3
Capture your grief is a photo project which runs for the length of October. This is my grief. Last night together, planning how to say goodbye. Day 3 – Myths. THAT TIME HEALS THIS PAIN. It hasn’t. It...
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The Gift Of Christmas| Finley’s Footprints | AOK |
Finley’s Footprints is the name of this site, but for 2014 it is also an action. I will be intentionally leaving footprints of kindness in memory of my son. These are intention random acts of kindness....
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Footprints or footsteps…
The more time that passes the more confusing Finley’s death gets. I suppose that I will never, ever understand somethings. But right now I am wondering about the word footprints. I am wondering on...
View ArticleBook Review – Baby Dust | Deanna Roy
Description: The five women sitting in the circle of chairs all had great dreams of motherhood. Then their babies died. Melinda sees blood on the floor every day after her loss. Dot believes the wrath...
View ArticleBook Review: Life Touches Life by Lorraine Ash
Life Touches Life: A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth and Healing I recently read this book again. The first time I read it it became my lifeline. I had been searching for answers about the death of my son...
View ArticleDivisions…
Everytime I speak, write or share something, I know that it is thought provoking. And generally speaking things that are thought provoking also have the potential to be divisive. I don’t mind a good,...
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“Can Finley Come To My Birthday Party?”
Sending balloons to her brother in the sky. It’s not that often I am stumped. Stunned. Unable to figure out an option. I problem solve for a living. I can suggest good ideas for most people’s problems....
View ArticleAmanda Holden – Hospital Heartbreak
In the last few years there has been a very welcome, gradual move to more openness from hospitals and more public speaking about baby loss. It remains a taboo subject but many places are working hard...
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How To Cut The Stillbirth Rate In Half
50% less stillbirths = 50% less heartache 50% less of this? We should do everything possible right? A massive claim right? Cut the stillbirth rate in half? It can’t be possible, right? I can imagine...
View ArticleNot cried out yet…
I thought I had this grief thing cracked. I thought it didn’t hurt anymore. I thought I’d figured it all out. That I had my way to include my son in my life. To balance loving his memory, with living...
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Since That Day…
Since That Day There Is Always One Missing. On 2nd August 2009 Finley John Scott was one of 11 babies in the Uk who were stillborn. Over 4000 babies would join him in that year. 2.6 million babies were...
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