Blog Love – More than Just a Mother
I know, the Blog Love is late – but I was scuppered by half term, so… you’ll just have to live with it. It’s not like I didn’t know who I wanted to point you in the direction of either. This weeks Blog Love goes to a very special one, which has been a favourite read of mine for a while; but the last few posts are really so worth just five minutes of your time visiting and reading.
Simply and beautifully written, heart-wrenchingly honest, and each time it appears in my reader at the moment my heart beats a little faster as I go to read the next instalment. This link (and those that follow) takes you back a few days, so that you can start at the beginning – make sure you go from there to the following couple of posts, and add More Than Just A Mother to your reader/rss feed so you can follow her journey through her memory box, and the letters she wrote through the most terrible of times any of us could imagine.
I am aware the blog discusses with honesty and stinging emotion what is a very sensitive subject, and one which some may not wish to read about – certainly not caught unawares, and expecting a frothy giggle to make you snort into your morning coffee. So here’s her blogs own quick introduction to ‘MTJAM’ – More Than Just A Mother;
“I suffered years of infertility before being lucky enough to fall pregnant on our first attempt at IVF. I went into labour at just 26 weeks and my twin boys were born two weeks later. One of my sons contracted meningitis and died when he and his brother were five weeks old. It was – and still is – indescribably awful. My surviving son came home from hospital when he was four months old, and shortly afterwards I discovered I had fallen naturally pregnant – with twins. My girls were born safely at term after an arduous, risky pregnancy, wracked with grief, anxiety and denial. I was plunged into the darkness of post-natal depression, emerging a year later, finally in love with my children and just about able to deal with the loss of my son. Having other children doesn’t make it any easier to lose one, but it does give you a reason to keep going.
Please, do visit, read and comment – just make sure you have a tissue somewhere nearby, and an uninterrupted five minutes before you start.
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