Back in 2018, roughly a year after I started writing this blog, I started to wonder if I should put everything I was learning about miscarriage – the hard way – into a book. Five years later, that book was published. Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions, and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood […]
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Everything I know about miscarriage
Back in 2018, roughly a year after I started writing this blog, I started to wonder if I should put everything I was learning about miscarriage – the hard way – into a book. Five years later, that book was published. Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions, and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood […]
No room to grieve
In August, during the week I waited for an appointment to confirm that I was having my fifth miscarriage, I didn’t let myself grieve. The time for that will come, I thought. Not yet, I thought. When we know for certain, that’s when I will let this grief in. Instead, I did my usual work. Cooked our usual […]
My book is out this week!
My book – Life, Almost: Miscarriage, Misconceptions, and a Search for Answers from the Brink of Motherhood – is published on Thursday. I can hardly believe it. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about sharing it with the world (as I tried to express in my most recent newsletter). And yet, at […]
Guest monologue: Fight, flight, or freeze?
This week, I have a guest post for you, written by Lyanne Nicholl, campaigner and author of the new book, Your Postnatal Body: A Top-to-Toe Guide to Caring For Yourself After Pregnancy and Birth (in which I make a small cameo, but don’t hold that against it…) Lyanne interviewed me for a section in the book that […]
To wait or not to wait?
You may have seen the news reported yesterday that a large, high quality study has confirmed that conceiving in the months immediately after a miscarriage does not raise the risk of complications in a subsequent pregnancy. This subverts the current advice given by the World Health Organization that it’s best to wait six months after a loss […]
Baby loss burn-out
And so another infant and pregnancy loss awareness week/month comes and goes. This was my sixth one now as someone all too ‘aware’. This year, I felt increasingly disconnected from it all. Not least because I was away on a busy trip for the annual wave of light – the lighting of candles in memory […]
Five things I’ve learnt in five years
It was my birthday this week. Dan surprised me with a trip away – staying in a hotel in Marbella old town that we’ve been to before and loved. The last time we were there was five years ago, just after my third miscarriage. Which made me realise that it’s also now been five years […]
I’ve written a book….
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to post this on here – on the blog that started everything in the first place. If you follow me on social media or get my email newsletter**, you’ll know by now that I’ve been keeping a secret. Just over a year ago, I started writing a […]
Guest monologue: The Fertility Kitchen
Hello! Jennie here. This is the first post in what I hope will become an occasional series, highlighting books, projects, and other resources that have been created out of a less-than-straightforward fertility journey. I got chatting to Charlotte on social media a little while ago – and now her first recipe book The Fertility Kitchen has just […]