The Smallest Goodbye

They said "at least it was early." It didn't feel early to you.

It felt like a baby. A due date. A whole future you had already begun to love. And now the world has moved on — and you're standing in the supermarket, or awake at 3 a.m., wondering whether you're even allowed to grieve this much.

You are. Your loss was real — however early, however unseen, however quietly it happened.

The Smallest Goodbye is a gentle, body-first workbook for grieving a miscarriage or early pregnancy loss. It won't tell you to find closure, look on the bright side, or "move on" — because grief isn't a problem to solve, and love doesn't keep a timeline. Instead, it gently helps you let your loss be real, soothe a grieving body (the part no one warns you about — the hormones, the empty arms, sometimes milk that comes with no baby to feed), and carry your baby's love forward, at your own pace.

Written with warmth by Cora Bellamy, it's built for the hardest days — with a lowest-capacity version of everything, for when you have nothing left to give.

Inside, gently:

• A simple three-part path — Acknowledge, Soothe, Carry
• "The Tide" — a one-minute practice for when grief ambushes you
• A 30-day gentle programme with no streak to keep
• Pages for the losses that carry extra fear — missed miscarriage, ectopic, molar, chemical, and loss after loss
• A place for the silent griever who told no one, and for the partner grieving too
• Letters to your baby, gentle ways to remember, and space to write it all down

This book is for miscarriage and early pregnancy loss. If you have experienced a later loss, stillbirth or neonatal death, your grief is every bit as real — and you may find a book written specifically for that loss holds you more closely.

You don't have to carry this alone, and you don't have to carry it perfectly. However small the world thought this loss — your love was real, and so is your grief.

Go gently. You always come home.