Tag: loss
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The “M” Word Part III

*Note: may contain triggers “Sitting here in bed and I may be losing my baby. And I can’t do anything to fix it. I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know and can’t read my own body because any symptoms there are could swing either way (i.e. pregnant or miscarriage). The only thing that I…
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The “M” Word – Part II

Note may contain triggers To back track, a little, again, we decided to finally pull the trigger in December. We were going without meds and using my natural cycle to time everything (which in itself is amazing scientifically). I was delighted as it meant little to no medications, and so off we went. And as…
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The ‘M’ Word – Part I

*Note may contain triggers I really didn’t ever think I would find myself in this situation, writing about the topic of a miscarriage with it having happened to me. I genuinely – and naively – thought that this is something that happens to “other women”, and I utterly empathised with them, while thinking “God, it…
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The Family Photobook

I recently read on an Instagram page I follow for women who have lost their mothers and while usually I tend to scroll past, vaguely acknowledging that that technically refers to me, I tend to distance myself from it and these women who are acutely grieving and can’t seem to ‘get over it’ – harsh…
