I don’t think of you often, but when I do my hand caresses my tummy where you lived for such a short time before leaving this world behind. I remember you on the day you should have been born and on the day you died and sometimes I hear a whisper in the wind and…
Northernmum: My time in pubs and Tesco’s toilets…..
It was May, we had spent the weekend with our parents at the races, it was 2005 and our family just consisted of two, me and he who would be creating them. I felt different, a little tired, a little sick, I convinced myself it was down to a weekend of over indulgence. But still, as…
Parenting: The one about being pregnant ~ Northernmum
Benjamin Franklin once said….. A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, are the handsomest two things that can be seen common
I want to change my children
I grew you, do you know that? I grew you from being smaller than a spec of sand. Your fingers and thumbs were defined within me; your hearts starting beating next to my own. You all first sucked your thumbs safe inside my chocolate filled belly; you were created with a passion and sustained by…
Miscarriage: A Crack in My Heart….
The day I missed a miscarriage… It was 2009, it was a Friday, the weather was unremarkable, neither hot nor cold with no wind to blow the petals off the roses in the garden. I was almost thirteen weeks pregnant with my third baby, I had turned a corner and left the exhaustion, the nausea and…
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