featheringtheemptynest
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Elle here. Just to clear things up, I’ve been in and out of hospital following our 8 weeks of IVF treatment. I’m not being intentionally vague or trying to “keep up people’s interest”, I just felt I wanted to explain my absence as I had gone from posting daily stories and lots of people had been genuinely concerned about where I was.
I can confirm I have absolutely no plans for another book, I don’t have another subject to write about and have told Teddy’s story in full. I wrote Ask Me His Name as a genuine effort to support other bereaved parents and hopefully help others to support them too. I make very little money from Instagram (I’ve written about this very honestly in blog posts that are still there to read on my blog if you wish to look), and I was paid a small fee for the time it took for me to write my book; the book now donates to Tommy’s The Baby Charity. I am most certainly not “profiting from my grief”, any of the (few) sponsored posts I have done are unrelated to Teddy and have been either home or fashion related work.
My main focus is fundraising, so that less parents have to experience what we have. So far we have raised £125k for the neonatal unit where our son died, and as a volunteer on the charity committee there that remains my main job. I use Instagram as a platform to raise awareness, and hopefully make other people feel like they too can carry on after a devastating loss. It may not be the way everyone would choose to deal with a loss, but it’s how I have chosen to. I hope this helps to explain my situation a little better. I understand that there will always be accounts on social media that aren’t to everyone’s taste, and my advice to anyone who dislikes an account would just be to unfollow, as opposed to wasting your time writing hateful, hurtful and personal things about that person.
I can confirm I have absolutely no plans for another book, I don’t have another subject to write about and have told Teddy’s story in full. I wrote Ask Me His Name as a genuine effort to support other bereaved parents and hopefully help others to support them too. I make very little money from Instagram (I’ve written about this very honestly in blog posts that are still there to read on my blog if you wish to look), and I was paid a small fee for the time it took for me to write my book; the book now donates to Tommy’s The Baby Charity. I am most certainly not “profiting from my grief”, any of the (few) sponsored posts I have done are unrelated to Teddy and have been either home or fashion related work.
My main focus is fundraising, so that less parents have to experience what we have. So far we have raised £125k for the neonatal unit where our son died, and as a volunteer on the charity committee there that remains my main job. I use Instagram as a platform to raise awareness, and hopefully make other people feel like they too can carry on after a devastating loss. It may not be the way everyone would choose to deal with a loss, but it’s how I have chosen to. I hope this helps to explain my situation a little better. I understand that there will always be accounts on social media that aren’t to everyone’s taste, and my advice to anyone who dislikes an account would just be to unfollow, as opposed to wasting your time writing hateful, hurtful and personal things about that person.