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The Uterus Monologues: Miscarriage, motherhood and me

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Life after recurrent miscarriage

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A white plastic capsule of progesterone, held up in front of a stone wall, pinched between finger and thumb, with fingernails that are painted red
April 14, 2022April 14, 2022Jennie

FAQs: Progesterone to prevent miscarriage

I’ve written before about what I did (and didn’t) do differently in my fifth pregnancy, which gave me Edward. The TL:DR version being: I took progesterone, and changed absolutely nothing else/ tried to be as relaxed about all other lifestyle minutiae as possible. More than two years on from that post, the questions I get […]

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March 24, 2022March 24, 2022Jennie

The Mother of all Days

This is just a short note ahead of Mother’s Day to say that whatever you’re feeling this year, it really is OK. Most of all, whether you’ll be enduring social obligations through gritted teeth, pretending the day doesn’t exist, or joining in and celebrating at long last, please don’t feel guilty. When I asked people […]

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July 26, 2021July 26, 2021Jennie

Pregnancy after loss – a (gentle) survival guide

By the time you read this, it’ll have been more than a year since I was pregnant. This is only the second time this has been true in – what? – five years, now. The last time I could say it was when we took an extended break from trying to conceive after our fourth […]

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April 2, 2020April 2, 2020Jennie

COVID-19: Some fears and some facts

It’s difficult to know what to write at times like these. My anxiety that something will go wrong with this pregnancy (our fifth)  reached new heights this week. It’s been surreal feeling my nebulous, shapeless worries harden into concrete, very real fears in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will I still be able to have […]

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March 19, 2020March 19, 2020Jennie

Guest monologue: Miscarriage and pregnancy in the shadow of a pandemic

When this post from a reader landed in my inbox this week, it could not have been better timed…It said so many things I have been thinking and feeling, but haven’t been able to process properly yet. As you probably know by now, I am pregnant for a fifth time (you can read more about […]

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October 31, 2019Jennie

Defence against the dark arts

The clocks have rolled back and they seem to have taken the easy optimism I’ve felt all summer with them. The middle chunk of this year has flown for me – one minute we were heading off on a spring holiday, the next it was baby loss awareness week again. But now the nights are […]

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Aerial view of a woman sitting reading a magazine with a cup of coffee and a blanket - magazine headline reads 'how to be sociable when you don't feel like it'
June 14, 2019Jennie

How to be sociable (when you really don’t feel like it)

I’ve got a piece in this month’s Red magazine about socialising – specifically, how to be sociable when you don’t feel like it. I’d pitched it after seeing one too many ‘I’m sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come’ memes, thinking that it would be interesting to delve into why we’re all apparently so […]

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Hand holding a quote on brown paper that reads: If I were to start a file on things nobody tells you about until you’re right in the thick of them, I might begin with miscarriages. A miscarriage is lonely, painful, and demoralising almost on a cellular level.”
April 10, 2019March 25, 2021Jennie

75 ways to feel better after baby loss

All the leaflets they give you after a miscarriage or other kind of baby loss tend to tell you sympathetic but vague things. A soup of words such as ‘profound emotional impact’, ‘bereavement period’ and ‘time to recover’ swim and muddle themselves on the page, while you’re still trying to comprehend what has happened. Just […]

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Miscarriage adverts, online algorithms after baby loss, woman with computer, coffee, in bed,
February 20, 2019March 6, 2019Jennie

How to beat the miscarriage malgorithms

It’s an internet truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a womb must be in want of a pregnancy test. Or an ovulation stick. Or perhaps some adorable matching mama-and-baby leggings. The internet knows when you’re pregnant. Or, at least, it has very strong ideas about when you should be pregnant. I got my […]

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