Words that are allowed to land
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Nobody prepares you for this grief.
Not for the moment it goes wrong. Not for the silence that follows. Not for what it feels like to keep living while your child is not here.
Here you will find words that try. Honest stories about miscarriage, stillbirth and baby loss. Insights that help when you yourself lost a child. Answers for when you want to support someone but don't know how. And space for everything you feel, the grief and the love.
Because living with loss is something different from living in loss.
That difference changes everything.
Finding yourself again after baby loss: what I discovered
Finding yourself again after baby loss: what I discovered Finding yourself again after baby loss feels impossible to many mothers. You have changed. Deep inside. And somewhere along the way you also lose yourself — not just the version of you from before the loss, but…
You are a mother after stillbirth. That will never change.
You are a mother after stillbirth. That will never change. Being a mother after stillbirth sometimes feels uncertain. Not because you are not a mother — but because the world around you sometimes makes you feel that way. Many women recognise that one moment…
Pregnant after miscarriage: living with fear that never fully leaves
Pregnant after miscarriage: living with fear that never fully leaves Pregnant after miscarriage — and being happy feels dangerous. That might sound strange. But if you have been through pregnancy loss, you know exactly what I mean. You want to be happy. You try to be…
What to say to someone who had a miscarriage: an honest answer
What to say to someone who had a miscarriage: an honest answer What to say to someone who had a miscarriage is something almost nobody teaches you. You want to say something. But you don’t know what. Your friend has had a miscarriage. Or your sister. Or your…
You are not the only one. But you may not know that yet.
You are not the only one. But you may not know that yet. You are not the only one carrying this. But in that quiet room, after the hospital, after the funeral, after the cremation, it feels that way. Making stillbirth speakable starts with one woman who dares to say…