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

As I begin to type our story, Zara’s story; there is still an overwhelming fear of judgement.

I had my 20-week scan on a Friday. My husband and I were expecting everything to be fine.

“Your baby’s head is big! I don’t want to alarm you but just be prepared.” These words from my sonographer changed my life forever.

I am a community midwife, so I often see pregnancies that end in miscarriage which made me apprehensive to tell many people about the pregnancy.

When I was 40 years old (2020) I decided it was time to take matters into my hands, so I got pregnant via IVF with...

11th August 2021, my world changed forever. We were lucky enough to fall pregnant only a month after coming off contraception and it was a...

I approached my 20-week scan with the same excitement and joy that I had done for my previous two pregnancies.

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.