Four months after her mother died from breast cancer, Rachel Clarke found out she was expecting her first baby. In this moving piece, Rachel describes how it feels to enter motherhood without your own mother there to guide you…
death
Family
How should we speak to our children about death? We ask bereavement counsellor Julia Davies about what to say, creative activities to try and when to turn to the professionals…
Family
In the penultimate article from Michelle Tolfrey, who writes so honestly and movingly about the devastating loss of her baby girl Orla – who was born sleeping, she asks us to be gentle with the heart of a bereaved mother…
Wellbeing
One minute, she was happily married with two sons – aged 12 and nine – the next, her husband had died. We speak to Jemima Thomas about the unpredictable nature of grief, losing friends who thought she should move on and how it feels to be a widow, five years on…
Family
Last Monday we heard from clinical psychologist Michelle Tolfrey, whose baby daughter Orla was sadly stillborn, about the birth story. This week, she discusses our need to label everything and how this affects life after loss…
Mornings
In a devastatingly sad piece, Aimee Foster explains what it was like to experience the death of her one-day-old baby daughter, Grace. She describes the 24 hours they had together and returning home the following day…
Family
Two years ago, on a family holiday in Jamaica, Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead’s husband Tony drowned while saving their four-year-old son. A year later, she was diagnosed with cancer. She discusses survivor’s guilt, desperately grieving and not living every day like it’s her last…