Gender Disappointment?
I have decided to talk about something that I doubt many people will understand. I would never have understood it before, but then we lost Madelyn and everything changed. When people look at me with my children, they see a mother of boys. I could not love my boys any more than I do, they are my world and they have pulled me through the toughest of times. I’m proud to be their Mum and I love the rough and tumble and the cuddles that come with it, but I am not only a mother of boys. I had a daughter, not for very long but I had her. I grew her, I gave birth to her and I held her as life left her tiny body. She was here and I am still her Mum too. When I was pregnant with Madelyn I did not mind whether she was going to be a boy or a girl. Having had a son already, part of me thought it would be nice to buy girly things this time around but that had never been something I’d been particularly bothered about. It certain...