TODAY WAS A MASSIVE DAY FOR ME!!!!
Today I donated cuddle cot number 14, and a wipe clean Moses basket & stand to Lancashire Women and Newborn centre in MAGGIE PEARL PARSONS MEMORY.
As you all know our beautiful, perfect Maggie was born sleeping at term here in the butterfly room on 30th June 2015.
Today I entered the Butterfly room with our donation and I wasn’t filled with heartache and fear and sadness. I was filled with over whelming PRIDE!!! This is THE FIRST TIME I have ever felt this feeling in the 5 and a half years we have been fundraising!
It was made so much more amazing in my eyes that Maria Elizabeth, a fantastic lady and now life long friend who did all my training every week for my birthing plan, was there. And so was the amazing Caroline Dolman, who passed me Maggie in theatre when she was born by caesarean, and has been and still is my rock and one of my best mates ever there was.
It was an absolute honour and privilege to do this donation today as it’s what I wanted to do from the moment I had Maggie.
Knowing that families, who do not want to stay at the birthing centre in the bereavement rooms, who want to take their babies home with them until their final farewell, can now do so makes me feel so humble and honoured.
Thank you to the bereavement midwife Kathryn for letting us donate this. It honestly means the world to me.
Thank you to you all for your support – even through the awful year we’ve had in 2020. I could not do any of this without you all.
