Tag: pregnancy

• 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…

  viennamammy

  June 4, 2024

  grief, IVF, miscarriage

  babyloss, emotions, grief, ICSI, infertility, infertilityclinics, IVF, ivfjourney, ivfwarrior, life, loss, maternal, mentalhealth, miscarriage, Motherhood, parenthood, pregnancy

• 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…

  viennamammy

  April 8, 2024

  IVF, Motherhood

  babytwo, family, first time, first time mom, grief, IVF, keepingitreal, life, loss, miscarriage, Motherhood, parenting, parents, pregnancy

• Birth Story – Part II

  

  *Content warning* – I am not sure what will trigger anyone and I can honestly say, that while everything was considered a ‘normal’ birth with very little intervention, for me, as a first-timer, it was quite intense and in some ways traumatic. The aim isn’t to worry anyone facing or currently going through this process…

  viennamammy

  February 4, 2023

  Labour, Birth and Delivery

  birth story, birthing process, contractions, CTG, first time mom, first time parents, giving birth, labour, maternity, midwives, pregnancy

• Birth Story Part I – The Wildest Ride of my Life

  

  The night I became a mom and the wildest ride of my life

  viennamammy

  January 10, 2022

  Labour, Birth and Delivery

  birth story, birthing process, castor oil, contractions, CTG, first time mom, first time parents, labour, maternity, maternity ward, midwife, pregnancy