As it turned November, I was hit by a deep sadness and realisation – this month is my stillborn son’s first birthday. How do you even begin to process and acknowledge such a significant event? I wasn’t really sure how I felt about Guy’s first year almost being over. What did it mean for my life after […]
If you have been following my journey, you will already be aware that in August, we miscarried our third pregnancy. At the end of Is there a storm coming? (part 2), I mentioned that we were being referred to the recurrent miscarriage team. It was the beginning of October when we had our first appointment at […]
On Sunday 13th November, it is our butterfly baby Guy’s first birthday! The concept of time feels so strange at the moment. In one way, this year has flown by and I can’t believe it has been a year since we met our sleeping baby. The pain is still raw, the visions and memories still […]
I was very honoured to write this blog for Tommy’s to feature in their #7voices7days campaign as part of baby loss awareness week. I thought I would include it here in case anyone didn’t see it. Pregnancy loss is not uncommon. It happens everyday to around 700 families, yet there is still a taboo and silence […]
Louise Stephens is a specialist research midwife at St Mary’s hospital in Manchester. Here she talks about her personal experiences working in the Rainbow and Placenta clinics, and the research taking place to improve outcomes for future high risk pregnancies: Of late, I am frequently asked what does my job actually involve? Most people including my own family […]
As featured on Silver Linings, as part of their #domoregood bloggers campaign. Aching Arms was chosen as their charity of the month. Myself and three other Aching Arms volunteers wrote guest blogs to help promote the charity. Here is mine… As I mentioned in my previous blog, there are thousands of charities out there all […]
There are thousands of charities out there all trying to raise awareness and support various causes. Many of them are well known nationally and internationally, and there are some you never know about. Some smaller, more specialist charities we never know about until we find ourself in a position where they are brought to our […]
It’s been a week since we discovered that our third baby had died. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I’ll try to explain. After leaving the Early Pregnancy Unit on Monday morning, the plan was to go back on Saturday for medical management, basically like being induced. A couple of my girlfriends had […]
I don’t even know where to begin writing this, and I apologise if it’s a little blunt or angry… I guess I’ll just continue where the last blog left off. As planned we went back to the hospital on Monday to see Dr Jenny. I’d had no bleeding over the weekend, which although possibly a […]
I wasn’t sure whether to post about this or not, but I figured the whole point of my blog was to follow my whole pregnancy journey, wherever that took us. We’ve hit a little bump in the road which I’m hoping is all it is, but here’s what’s been going on… Yesterday (11th August) was […]