Ending a pregnancy after the diagnosis of a genetic or structural condition

Here is my story of the birth of my daughter Poppy Rose. I am an NHS midwife and I work on the labour ward. It has...

As it is baby loss awareness week, I felt it was timely to share our tragedy that was losing our beautiful girl, Jessie.

We lost our daughter Nefi in August 2019 following a TFMR (termination for medical reasons) when I was 34 weeks pregnant.

2020 was a hard year for everyone, but in September our family had some news, something to finally look forward to! After 18 months of...

We miraculously got pregnant during the first month of trying.

I know I will always have that pain of losing Joel and life is just different now, but I have the most amazing, supportive, loving...

I found out I was pregnant with my second baby in May 2016.

Despite the happy chaos of our every day family life, the trauma of losing our second daughter is never far from my mind.

No matter how much we wanted this baby, his welfare had to come first and I couldn’t bear for him to suffer any more than...

She has changed me and made me more fragile and more robust, delighted yet cynical, in love and yet removed. Thank you Alma for your...