Unresolved grief is a heavy burden to carry. You may have experienced your pregnancy loss many years ago. Buried in your mind but not leaving your heart. For some women the feelings are buried deep. They feel they shouldn't talk about something which happened years ago, pushing their feelings to one side. But for many [...]
There are 7 stages to the wheel of grief: Shock and Denial, Pain and Guilt, Anger and Bargaining, Depression, Upward turn, Working Through and Acceptance and Hope. It’s helpful to understand these stages and identify which stage you’re at when it comes to navigating your through the trauma of your loss. The cycle is [...]
Each Year on 9-15th October, it's Baby Loss Awareness Week What does this mean? It's a week where awareness is given to the silent, often taboo subject of Baby Loss - whether that's an early miscarriage, late miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or Stillbirth. Who is it for? Parents, don't need a week to remember their losses, [...]
Blame can be felt after a loss when feelings of sadness, hurt, and probably anger occur, and we look to someone to be accountable. This can be levelled at your partner, the medical sector or ourselves. Self-blame is common after miscarriage. Please know that there is very little you could have done to stop your [...]
The grief is intangible I used to wake up in the morning and for a split second everything was ‘normal’, then it hit me like a tonne of bricks. The grief of losing your baby during pregnancy is intangible, and no matter how hard you try you just can’t imagine what it feels like to [...]
Are you suffering from the silent pain of miscarriage? You are not alone You feel the pain of loss. The pain of what might have been. The pain of the dreams that were shattered but not forgotten. You’re not alone. Miscarriage affects 1 in 4 women. In the UK that stat would suggest that 2.75 [...]
Going back to work after a miscarriage It certainly isn't easy to go back to work after having had a miscarriage or any type of baby loss. I struggled with this. I was in the corporate world and found it one of the hardest things to deal with after my loss. The director of [...]
I've made it to a finalist in the Mpower Business Awards in the Voice Category! I was so incredibly happy to be chosen as a finalist in the Mpower Business Awards - if you don't know about Mpower - it's a National organisation which supports Mum's in Business. There are many categories and I [...]
Maternal Health It's Maternal Health week, and I was moved to write a blog about how we hold experiences, such as the trauma of miscarriage, pregnancy loss and traumatic birth in our body. What goes on in our mind affects our body We are mostly forgiven for thinking that we hold this in our mind [...]
Mother’s Day: Is an opportunity to celebrate the brilliance of our mothers (and mother figures) and strengthen the special bond with our children. But for women around in the UK who have experienced miscarriage, navigating the occasion can be fraught with emotion as we remember the trauma of pregnancy loss. Though miscarriage is often obscured [...]
