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I'm not going to put a trigger warning. She's still my daughter and I don't need to have a warning to talk about her.

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Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 17:37

Sorry, I don't want to have to warn people before I talk about my daughter.

She was here, she was a person who was, and is, loved every day, and I shouldn't have to worry about talking about her in case it triggers someone. I'm fed up of worrying about other people's thoughts about my personal tragedy.

I'm having a wobble today. There's nobody around who knew her, nobody who understands what we went through, I can't talk about her because it makes other people sad.

She's a memory and some old photos to most people.

But she was my daughter. I loved her from the moment I knew she was there, until the moment she took her last breath, and every day since.

Her big dark eyes and massive fuzz of dark hair were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

She was very poorly her whole short life, in so much pain every day. I'm struggling to deal with it more and more as time goes on. She was so delicate she never even had a proper cuddle because she would have broken.

It's been over 10 years, you would think I would feel better now, but I sometimes look at girls her age and wonder why they couldn't be her.

I look at recent cases and wonder if I should have fought more for her, I knew there was nothing they could do, but I would have had more time, and I wouldn't have had to hold her so gently as they removed the machines that kept her alive.

I keep thinking she must have felt so betrayed as I looked at her with love and pain and let her slip away. I worry she was scared but she was so little I would never have known.

I left a window open in that horrible little store cupboard where she died as the hospital had nowhere else to go that was private, I left the window open so her beautiful soul could fly high and free as she never was in her short time here.

I miss her so much.

Sorry for rambling, I have no one to talk to and just want something real that isn't a thought in my head.

Today is a struggle.

OP posts:
haverhill · 03/07/2019 17:41

Talk here about your darling girl all you want. What was her name?

loobylou10 · 03/07/2019 17:42

Oh OP I'm so sorry you're having a hard day. What was your lovely girls name?

Itisnamechangetimeagain · 03/07/2019 17:42

I'm so sorry. What's her name?

MrsGrannyWeatherwax · 03/07/2019 17:43

I’m so sorry you have no one to talk to about your daughter.

You can tell me (us) about her if it helps? X

Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 17:46

Her name is Emma. All the way through my pregnancy I was convinced she would be a Daisy, but in one perfect moment after she was born, before she was whisked off, in the one moment I saw her not surrounded by machines and I saw her beautiful little mouth with no ventilator, I knew she was my beautiful Emma.

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doodleygirl · 03/07/2019 17:46

I would love to hear about your beautiful girl 💕

CruellaFeinberg · 03/07/2019 17:46

Hi OP, I'm listening (reading)
Flowers

foreverhanging · 03/07/2019 17:48

I'm here op

Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 17:48

She isn't even a memory to most people. Even her dad doesn't care.
She's just a sad story to most people.
I want to be one of those mum's who goes out and fundraises and does their child proud by raising thousands, but I can't, I struggle to put one foot in front of the other some days, even now.

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Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 17:48

Thank you all Flowers

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AlbusSeverusMalfoy · 03/07/2019 17:49

I would love to hear about her. Talk to us about your beautiful daughter. Xx

Littlebluetinofdorcaspins · 03/07/2019 17:50

Oh, lovely, your beautiful little girl wouldn’t have felt betrayed - she would have felt loved by her mummy, and she knows she’s held in your heart for all the days of your life.

MrsXyzAbc · 03/07/2019 17:51

Thinking of you and little Emma Flowers

looondonn · 03/07/2019 17:52

So sorry for your loss

Little angel ❤️❤️❤️❤️

MamaWeasel · 03/07/2019 17:53

Tell us about Emma ☺

SalitaeDiscesa · 03/07/2019 17:53

💐 in memory of Emma.

BobTheFishermansWife · 03/07/2019 17:54

We're here, we're listening.
Be kind to yourself, you're doing brilliant by surviving and keeping her memory alive in you. You'll find the strength one day to do all the fund raising you want, but when you're ready, at your pace.
Tell us as much or as little as you want to about your darling Emma, we're here, we'll listen xx

Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 18:07

Thank you for your kindness.

Truth be told I wouldn't know what to fundraise for, they don't know why she died. Possibly chromosonal, but in the tiny percentage that they don't know much about yet was what I was told.

I have my kids to focus on, and I do every single day, it's a horrible thought that if Emma was here my younger ones probably wouldn't be as she would have had complex medical needs so I try not to think about that.

She was just a little doll. So perfect, except she wasn't. Her brain was fine, she was really nosy, and she had such a cheeky little face, but she couldn't move at all, her bones were so brittle she would have crumbled with a cuddle.

I just want to scream, why her, I watched other parents leaving the hospital with their kids and I would 100% have been selfish and swapped our place with theirs without even thinking.

I feel like her death has made me so selfish, I find sympathy a struggle now, I hate people whinging about silly little problems, I don't even get close to anyone who is pregnant or who has a child her age because I can't deal with it.

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Exhsuatedmuch · 03/07/2019 18:10

Love how you describe her massive fuzz of hair . It made me smile how you describe her so lovingly and so full of detail.I cannot begin to understand a loss such as yours but talking about her and loving her just is as it should be.xxxxx

Mybeautifullittlegirl · 03/07/2019 18:21

I love her so much, but there's nowhere for it to go, if that makes sense.

I have no real life people to talk to, and I'm a mess right now at everyones kindness on here, knowing that you've all taken time out to read about and acknowledge my Emma really means so so much.

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ChihuahuaMummy1 · 03/07/2019 18:23

I'm so sorry op

IAmBeatrixKiddo · 03/07/2019 18:26

Your girl sounds absolutely beautiful.

saffy1234 · 03/07/2019 18:27

Tell us all about her OP
Remember too that those who live in our hearts never truly die x

writersbeenblocked · 03/07/2019 18:28

Tell us your favourite memories of her so that she can be more than "just a name" Flowers

saffy1234 · 03/07/2019 18:28

She sounds beautiful xx