Unlike most new parents, we were condensing the decades of parenting we had wanted into the 19 days that our son lived for. Like all new parents, we read these first stories, held tiny hands, changed nappies and marked a new branch of our family tree. Grief, like labour, concerns unconditional love. In its throws, it is muddy and infinite, as though crossing a river or field of snow. Grief, like labour, is something to be gotten through. We sang it over and over again, behind facemasks, in the days that followed at the bedside of our baby boy in hospital. “You can’t go over it, you can’t go under it, you’ve got to go through it”, goes the chorus in We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. I grasped at great handfuls of twigs and copper leaves before sinking to the mud and crawling home. Labour began at dusk while walking alone along the river path behind our house.īy the time I started to question, with horror, whether the cramps I was feeling could be the start of premature labour, the iron railings marking the edge of the river path had given way to beech hedge. It was October, the season they call fall. Here, in a powerful and personal essay, Away With The Birds, author Jemma Neville writes of love and loss in the hope of letting other families enduring such grief know they are not alone. One in every 13 babies in the UK is born premature, the leading cause of death in children under five worldwide. World Prematurity Day on Wednesday is part of a global movement to raise awareness of premature birth and the devastating impact it can have on families. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right.
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