After three girls, all six years between them, I fell pregnant with my fourth baby very quickly after my third. There was only three months between me giving birth and falling pregnant again. I had a fairly normal pregnancy and at 20 weeks I found...
When trying for our first child, we were delighted to fall pregnant after a couple of months. The tiredness, tenderness, hunger - it was all present and thriving. I had even started to show a little plump pouch. But the first scan came around at...
We started 2023 on a high. After struggling to conceive due to male factor infertility, my wife was pregnant through IVF. We had seen baby’s heartbeat in an early scan. But not long later my wife had a missed miscarriage. We cycled through the stages of...
I have two daughters, and with those pregnancies, I had no complications. So, I was shocked when I found out I was pregnant again, 11 months postpartum. My husband and I were excited, but I wasn’t sure how far along I was. At my first OB...
"Her grave is my safe place to connect to when I’m struggling." Elsie is 18 and experienced two miscarriages, Lyra at 11 weeks and Lionel at 4 weeks, when she was just 16 years old. Elsie wants to share her story to show that younger mums who...
After going through a late miscarriage, Tania took pen to paper and wrote this poignant poem in tribute to her experience and her baby, Mika. Stepping stones that all lead to being alone. Faltering, running, falling. Crying, screaming, calling. Empty words upon a headstone. Sinking stones that always lead to...