03/05/2026
It’s Bereaved Mother’s Day today. 🤍
And I don’t really know how to say it without it sitting straight in my chest as I speak it. ❤️🩹
My little boy Jude Arnhem was only 6 months old when he died. He should be turning 6 this year.
And that… never stops landing. 💔
I can still feel him where I used to hold him on my chest.
That closeness only a mumma knows. The weight of his tiny, fragile little body, the way he would completely settle into me so peacefully after his bath… warm, sleepy, his little body soft against mine, like that was his safest place in the whole world. Because it was!! 😭
And now that space just feels so empty. And I feel that more and more as time goes on…
Grief is not just thoughts or emotions for me. It’s so achingly physical too.
It’s the unbearable burning in my throat that I have to swallow down when it rises too fast.
It’s the deep breath I take when I feel myself slipping into < it > into the memories, into what his short life was, into everything I can’t afford to fully fall into when I’m standing ready to go into a job interview or at the supermarket checkout, just trying to hold myself together in public.
Because life doesn’t stop for this kind of grief. So I’ve learned how to carry it and keep going anyway.
And yes I choose to live every single day for my little boy who doesn’t get to. Even on the days it’s just so fu***ng hard and I don’t know if I want to anymore…
I know I chose this life on some deeper level. I feel that in my bones. But believe me, that doesn’t make it any easier. It just means there’s a part of me that understands something in soul, that my mind is still catching up to.
But the truth underneath all of it is simple!
I miss Jude. My brave little warrior… ♌️🦁
I miss him in a way that lives in my body every single day. In every way! And I carry him… still, in every.single.breath I take.
To every mum carrying a child in her heart instead of her arms today, I see you. My heart truly aches with you 🫂🤍
Always loving you, my darling JuJu Arnhem.
~ Mumma x
(Tiny Dancer was the song playing when Jude was born)