Fight the good fight (idiom): To try very hard to do what is right After the loss of a pregnancy, it takes a while to regain your strength and to resume the types of things you used to do. Be …
For Jennifer
Flower (verb): Of a plant, to produce flowers; bloom My blogs are my personal reflections, the most pressing thoughts on my mind and hopefully tips or suggestions for readers, but Mumoirs also provides a platform to cheerlead and to support …
Q&A
Bruth (Mumoirs abbreviation): Brutal truth I’ve been telling my bruth about our three losses – BoC, My Baby and Summer – via these Mumoirs blogs since June, so I wanted readers to hear some other voices, to grasp just how …
Launch Day
Launch (verb): To start or set in motion Dear actual-real-life, someone-other-than-me reader, So it’s here: Tuesday 9th June 2020, it’s “launch” day for my blog. No party, no fanfare, just a few messages to let friends and family know that …
The Seasons of Friendship
Seasonal (adjective): Fluctuating or restricted according to the time of year This is a blog I’ve been struggling with. I want to figure out where my head is, but I’ve been burying it in the sand for so long. What …
All the Little Things
Memory (noun):the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information Memories are just a collection of little moments, aren’t they? But how we piece together the collection is important. So I wanted to share this letter with you, it’s …
Light in the Dark
Friendship is the candle that lights up your heart whenever it is dark outside. This is the message I sent to two friends on the day of my daughter’s cremation. “My daughter” – I like saying that. These two friends …
Our Summer’s Day
Neonatal Death (medical): when a baby dies in the first 28 days of life. The neonatal mortality rate in England in 2018 was 2.8 deaths per 1,000 live births It is so hard to document my last week with Summer, …
My Beautiful Bunch of Cells
First Trimester (medicine): The first trimester begins on the first day of your last period and lasts until the end of week 12 of pregnancy. This is an email I sent to one of my close friends, two weeks after …