Communication Matters
I will be launching a campaign in the coming months called “Communications Matters” which will promote the importance of excellent communication between healthcare professionals and parents to be, especially when bad news has to be given. This is an area that is...
Happy 6th Birthday Frankie
Happy 6th birthday in heaven to my much loved and much wanted son Francesco "Frankie" Enrico Ventura. Not a day goes by no matter what I do and what I achieve where I don't think of Frankie and what should have been. I was supposed to be a mother... But instead..... I...
Goodbye To The Butterfly Awards
Yesterday I saw the news that the organisers of The Butterfly Awards have taken the decision to not run them again. This is the post they put up on their Facebook page. The Butterfly Awards were founded by Mel and Baz Scott in memory of their son Finley. Although I...
Not Out Of Mind Service in Worcester to Remember Our Babies on 13 October 2018
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust organises an annual service to remember the babies who were born sleeping, who were lost shortly after birth or who were lost through miscarriage. I haven't been for a couple of years because of all the other deaths...
All Good Things Must Come To An End….
Sometimes things run their natural course. Sometimes things change without you realising it. Some things can go on and on and on, or they can end while they are still good, leaving happy memories with you that make you smile. Take the last episode of “Star Trek: The...
An Account of Mother’s Day from an Empty Armed Mother
It is March 2018, and right now my life has never been more settled, and I’ve never been as happy since April 2012 to November 2013. That time period was the last time I felt truly happy – in that time I got together with my now husband, got engaged to him, my work,...
Big Me, Little Me
Last year I was heavily inspired by a Facebook update from one of my good friends who was a huge help to me as a volunteer for the first ever Worcestershire Literary Festival that I founded and ran back in 2011. So inspired I was by this post that I posted a comment...
A Letter To My Future Self – To Be Read On December 31st 2018
On Monday 1 January 2018 I was browsing LinkedIn and I noticed this post from a contact I have called Mark Sephton: When I read it I thought what a great idea! Having been off course with setting myself relevant goals over the past few years this seemed like a great...
Happy New Year 2018
Happy new year to you all, I hope that 2018 is a prosperous and happy new year for you. I’m really looking forward to the challenges and the new year ahead and hope to write much more for this blog in the new year. Whatever you are doing tonight, have fun but most of...
A Review Of 2017 From An Empty Armed Mother
Well, here we are again at the end of a year, and so soon too. It doesn’t seem like two minutes ago that I was getting ready to see in 2017 this time last year, and I do realise that I haven’t been keeping this blog as up to date as I would have liked. I guess if I...
