Child of Mine, Channel 4, 10pm
Posted by celticman on Fri, 19 Oct 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjJZSgY_mA
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/child-of-mine/on-demand/65727-001
One in 200 hundred births end in stillbirth. This documentary follows three couples through the ordeal and deals sensitively with the issues of loss and pain. In one London borough the Registrar dealt with six babies that were born dead that week. Spoiler: It will make you cry.
My mum lost her first-born child, Michael, and she might have lost another baby, but I was never told, being a boy, being a baby boy that the doctors also though would die. I wrote this after watching in remembrance of my mum and all the things I never knew.
Love you too
A pearl of irregular shade
At the heart of grief
There’s a thief
Who stole your breath – away
And yet
To commiserate, to celebrate
Fragments of forgetting
And forever home
What’s missing bittersweet
An antechamber of pain
I cannot hold you again
Yet.
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Sad old life. I can't watch
Sad old life. I can't watch such programs, because I wear my heart on the far end of my sleeve and get moved too much by them. My niece had a stillborn baby. Not sure she'll ever get over it. Great poem. Fine words.
yeh, shackleton, very sad,
yeh, shackleton, very sad, one of those times we don't know what to say or how to behave.