A Perfect Poppy

A Perfect Poppy A blog dedicated to child loss and the grief journey.

Please light a candle at 7pm tonight. Remembering all our beautiful babies who have been taken too soon.
15/10/2025

Please light a candle at 7pm tonight.

Remembering all our beautiful babies who have been taken too soon.

A year and a half in the making.Poppy’s Promise has just been given the green light to be launched to over 10,000 staff ...
01/09/2025

A year and a half in the making.

Poppy’s Promise has just been given the green light to be launched to over 10,000 staff and hopefully the first step on the ladder to change the face of healthcare in the NHS delivering more compassion and better communication at every step.

Making our girl proud by building her legacy. ❤️

I’ve been dreading this week for about a year. Since losing Poppy and going on to have two more beautiful babies, you ar...
01/09/2025

I’ve been dreading this week for about a year.

Since losing Poppy and going on to have two more beautiful babies, you are constantly smashed in the face by missed firsts.

First smile, first steps, first words.

But this missed first is one of the hardest.

Poppy should have been starting school this week. She should have been standing in front of this door in a freshly pressed uniform with a smile on her face. She should have been setting off on the next exciting stage of life to make new friends and learn new things.

Instead, we are left with a gaping hole in our lives with not only a profound sense of loss but the loss of a life not lived, a loss of memories never made.

The loss of our beautiful daughter has given me the gift of appreciating moments, no matter how small, as we know how lucky we are to have them. ❤️💔

4.Time does not heal. I miss you beyond words.My Poppy. Forever my baby girl. I’ll be watching for you in the stars toni...
11/04/2025

4.

Time does not heal. I miss you beyond words.

My Poppy. Forever my baby girl. I’ll be watching for you in the stars tonight and always. 💔

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12/02/2025

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With this influx of wonderful new followers, I thought it best to maybe introduce myself.I am Katie, Poppy’s mummy.I los...
03/02/2025

With this influx of wonderful new followers, I thought it best to maybe introduce myself.

I am Katie, Poppy’s mummy.

I lost my beautiful baby girl in April 2021 due to negligence by a midwife.

As I write this, nothing has changed, there has been no reprimand for those involved, for those who attempted to cover up fault over my baby’s death.

I don’t want Poppy to have died for no reason, I need her to have a legacy.

I started A Perfect Poppy website (check the link in the bio) as a blog to talk about loss, to try and reach out and lend any form of warmth or comfort to those who had experienced any form of child loss. I wanted to help. I didn’t want others to feel isolated.

Poppy’s legacy has now grown. Poppy’s Promise has been born. A 5 stage patient centred approach to more compassionate care and to encourage eradication of toxic workplace culture in the NHS.

Ultimately I want to help people, I want to prevent more innocent babies lives being lost and I want to support those when it unfortunately does. I want to know how we can make change that really matters.

I will continue to speak out, to share my story, to fight if it means we can save just one baby.

Thank you for being here and listening.

Katie x

If I had to describe today in a word. Overwhelming. But in the best way. I’ve been prepping for weeks for today. I’ve wr...
03/02/2025

If I had to describe today in a word. Overwhelming. But in the best way.

I’ve been prepping for weeks for today. I’ve written my presentation more times than I care to remember. I’ve run through it over and over. I was worried that I wasn’t anxious. For me, anxiety patient zero, I felt sure I was due some sleepless night. But no. No panic, no fear.

That was until I stood next to Big Ben. Until I realised the enormity of what I was about to do. I was here for Poppy, I was here to call for change for my darling girl.

Cue sobbing on Westminster Bridge and trying to correct my make up before meeting the wonderful folks from and

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Baby Loss was a welcoming and warm group but nothing could have prepared me for the outpouring of kindness and warmth I received on sharing Poppy’s story and Poppy’s Promise.

I would love to catch up with everyone from today and find out more about how we can work together to make change happen.

I will never forget today and I hope I made my baby girl proud.

Today is a big day.Today is a huge day.Today, I travel to Westminster, to the Houses of Parliament to speak at the All P...
03/02/2025

Today is a big day.

Today is a huge day.

Today, I travel to Westminster, to the Houses of Parliament to speak at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Baby Loss.

Today I will tell Poppy’s story.

Today I will fight for change.

2025.For anyone who needs this.
01/01/2025

2025.

For anyone who needs this.

Today marks the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week.I’ve been thinking about writing something all week for this but the tru...
15/10/2024

Today marks the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

I’ve been thinking about writing something all week for this but the truth is, every time I start, I crumble. My eyes well up to the point that I can’t stop the tears from leaking out.

3.5 years.

3.5 years and the pain goes on, the rawness of waking up each day and knowing she’s not there.

Baby loss is a wound that will never heal. People who have experienced it will never “get over it”, we will never move on, we will never not feel that pain.

So, if you know me or anyone that has experienced the loss of their beautiful baby, please light a candle at 7pm tonight for the Wave of Light.

So many beautiful little souls taken too soon. We will never forget.

Always remembered. Forever loved. Our darling Poppy.

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