I opened my eyes at 3.00am just as Samantha was giving me another check. At this point I’d had a bit of show and my waters broke, so she said it wouldn’t be very long until I was ready to give birth to Frankie. My husband rang...
Read MoreSo I didn’t manage much sleep that night, because I was woken up every four hours and given more tablets to try and get me into labour. Nothing at all happened except for the few twinges that I’d felt the day before, but at...
Read MoreOnce in the delivery suite we were shown into a room and told that the private suite was just being prepared for us and that we could go in it as soon as it was ready. For the first two hours we were there nothing much...
Read MoreAt this point, and this is going to sound really mad, but while my husband and I still had a tiny bit of wherewithal between us around the tears we shed we decided we would try to prepare as much as possible for what was to...
Read MoreSo this was the day that my heart broke into a million billion trillion pieces, at precisely 2.14pm in the afternoon. Frankie’s heartbeat had stopped, and he was no longer alive inside me. If there was any point in my life where...
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Frankie was a small pebble dropped into the lake of life…but his ripple will be felt forever…
My blog “Frankie’s Legacy: Love, Loss Grief & Recovery” focuses on raising awareness of early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, neonatal death, cleft lip/palate and rare chromosome disorders.
My much loved and much wanted son Francesco “Frankie” Enrico Ventura was born sleeping on 29/11/2013 and had a severe cleft lip/palate, talipes and an extremely rare chromosome disorder (chromosome 15 duplication syndrome).
This blog focuses on my journey as an empty armed mother, and about how I am surviving stillbirth, celebrating Frankie and creating his lasting legacy as best I can.
With much love,
Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS
Frankie’s Mummy
xxxxx
