Thank you

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I lost my Mum three weeks ago - the funeral is next Friday. It was a long battle with cancer but I saw her the day she died. I am not an hugely religious person but I do believe in God and an afterlife. All your threads have helped - I read them when my baby sleeps and I am on my own. I am in a fog sometimes - it does not feel real every day I keep saying I know my Mum loved me and I loved her. I miss her like a deep pain - part of my life is gone but I have the most wonderful baby and it helps to know other feel like I do. Thank you

Hi - so sorry - hope the funeral is as good and healing as it might be.

At the risk of writing in cliches - you will feel stronger and the sharp, because they are so recent, memories of your Mum will became softer and gentler - it'll be her life you recall in an instant, and not her pain and death. Been there, twice. Still miss my mum and dad so much but, like you, deeply grateful for their love which hopefully I pass on, somehow, to my kids.

I'm not deeply religious either, but I also believe that we'll meet those we love (and possibly those we don't!) in the next life.

Look after yourself and your lovely baby.

xx

thank you issy peach that is a kind message