Our Baby Thomas: My Valentine

Sunday, February 14, 2010

My Valentine

My Valentine to baby Thomas, click here to go to Still Life 365 where a slideshow of Valentines made by grieving parents including me will play.

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SophieFebruary 14, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Beautiful. Who did the drawing of Thomas?

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JulieFebruary 15, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Thanks Sophie.
There is a portrait artist in Seaford who I have known for over 20years, (she also teaches Belly dancing). She has done hundreds of portraits of babies that have passed on, some born too early, many stillborn. She is a very gentle compassionate soul. She can see past the tubes and tries to capture the personality. I can send you her contact details if you like. I did the page on scrapblog. You told me about Scrapblog, I like it, I have done quite a few now, like the postcard in the previous post.
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MaryFebruary 18, 2010 at 6:09 AM
That is a beautiful card.
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About this blog

Thanks for visiting my blog. These are my memory pages. Dedicated to the life of our baby Thomas who spent 4 1/2 months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, this collection of writing and pictures documents his life from his birth in October 2007 until he passed away in February 2008.
I have posted the emails that I wrote to family and friends and some of the photos that I took. Some of the poetry was written by me and some of it I have found in my bereavement travels.
Grief is not logical, I do not know where it will take me day by day, but I have found that it is better if I don't resist, it is better if I let it take me where it will.

Our Beautiful Baby Thomas

Thomas was born on 17th October 2007 and he died 135 days later on the 28th February 2008.
Thomas was born with Down Syndrome, Tracheal Osophageal Fistula and Osophageal Atresia, Tracheal Broncheo Malasia and Pulmonary Hypertension, he had a lot to fight.
On the night he was born Thomas was transferred to the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne for surgery to repair his Osophageus, that is when the Pulmonary Hypertension was discovered and surgery had to be stopped. We waited 15 weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit until he was well enough to have the surgery again. But in the weeks following surgery the Pulmonary Hypertension became more and more severe, to the point that the doctors told us that there was nothing left to do.
Thomas died with me and his daddy and his brother and his nurse. We held him and talked to him, we watched him go, quietly he slipped away.
I will never be the same again.