The road to a child who did not come when or how you imagined. Posts on infertility, treatment, pregnancy loss and decisions those around you rarely understand.
The first day back at work after a pregnancy loss: who to tell what, how to handle triggers, why your body is still in the loss, and how colleagues can help.
ReadIn stillbirth, birth and death happen at the same moment, and there are almost no shared memories. How you grieve for a child only his mother knew, and what it does to…
ReadAn ectopic pregnancy is often a double experience: the loss of a pregnancy and danger to your own health at the same time. Why grief so easily gets no room here, and…
ReadWhen a scan shows that something has gone seriously wrong with a pregnancy, there is no good choice. On grief after a termination for medical reasons, guilt, the silence of others and…
ReadTherapy cannot guarantee a pregnancy or answer medical questions. But it can offer room for grief after failed cycles, for conversation as a couple and for the decisions treatment demands.
ReadNot sure whether to ask or stay quiet, or how to share your own pregnancy? On staying beside a friend in fertility treatment for longer than a week — without burning out.
ReadWhen you long for a second child who doesn’t come, people often say “but you already have one”. On grief, guilt towards your first child and what happens to the couple.
ReadUncertainty breeds worry, worry breeds checking, checking breeds more uncertainty. How the anxiety cycle around infertility closes, what we know about stress and treatment outcomes, and how to loosen it.
ReadWhen one of you wants another attempt and the other can't go on, you end up on opposite banks. What often lies behind both sentences, and how to decide without the relationship…
ReadBehind egg freezing there is often not a career but a relationship that isn't there. What research shows, why the decision feels so lonely and how to approach it.
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