The Second Year Without Him.

I’ve heard the second year can almost be worse than the first year, and I’m beginning to understand why.

Grief, Baby LossBianca Welsh16 January 2024tfmr, baby loss, grief, pregnancy after loss, PAL, trauma, PTSD Comments

Christmas...finding 1000 more ways to miss him

It’s Christmas time…where it’s meant to be magical, wholesome, lovely and fun, but we can all admit the busyness of life, the pressure to make it magical, the forced social interactions can all make it incredibly anxiety inducing and exhausting, let alone the grief or loss factor that can be experienced by (probably) the majority in a range of different ways and reasons.

Grief, Baby LossBianca Welsh23 December 2023baby loss, tfmr, grief, christmasComment

The Light And The Shade After Grief

…I’ve got this unrealistic expectation that I’ve ticked all the boxes of triggering things through the pregnancy because that was so damn hard, and now when things come to smack me around the head, I’m so unprepared they knock me for six.

Pregnancy After Loss (PAL) - 33 weeks + gender disappointment + guilt

Many would expect when you’ve experienced baby loss something like gender disappointment would be far from your mind. But it isn’t, it’s just another layer on top of the grief and the trauma we experience. Then you add on the guilt from the possible PTSD you experience and then add on guilt for feeling the disappointment. It’s a lot to carry all at once. So, a little post about what many, not all, but many in the loss world might be experiencing.

Pregnancy after lossBianca Welsh30 June 2023PAL, pregnancy after loss, gender disappointment, gender, PTSD, baby loss, guilt, trauma, griefComment