I carry my grief with me every day...
My dream career is to be a mother. I lost my first at 32 weeks - a little boy, delivered stillborn by c-section. I lost my second eleven...
...as the number of miscarriages grew, the sympathy seemed to vanish,
I am a nurse who worked in the area of gynaecology for many years, looking after ladies who had miscarried or who were undergoing...
The devastation was expected, but the shame was not.
At the age of 32 I decided to get some help for my unexplained infertility. I was diagnosed with PCOS, and started the infertility life....
I was ashamed for a time, but then just mad, and then I became very open.
I thought the first miscarriage in my early twenties was just a fluke. I was young and scared at the news I was pregnant but started to...
It's hard to live with a big, black baby shaped hole in our lives.
We found out that we were expecting on 20th January 2014. I was in toilets at work with my mum when the test came up positive. I was so...
...It it so hard to break the silence when other’s want desperately for you to move on...
Two months prior to conceiving TJ, I was diagnosed with a bicornuate (heart shaped) uterus. It panicked me, I over-researched,...
Sometimes I wake up and have trouble finding my purpose in life...
My husband and I have been married for 15 years and trying to get pregnant for 5 of those years. When we started this journey we thought...
The Loss of Innocence Made Me Stronger
The lines of where my fairy tale story begin and where the tragedy of my life ends is a blurred line of memories like the sun setting...
..it is still so painful...
My husband and I could not get pregnant due to his infertility. We did IVF and got pregnant with triplets. At about 3 months, the 3rd...
I have a choice to lie, keep quiet, or tell the truth...
My husband and I could not get pregnant due to his infertility. We did IVF and got pregnant with triplets. At about 3 months, the 3rd...