miscarriage
Three mums share the reality of parenting after stillbirth or miscarriage.
The designer and her husband, Jamie Oliver, have five children.
From periods and birth to miscarriage and menopause, "our bodies can bring joy, but also pain and devastation".
After my first miscarriage, I was vocal in my grief. This time, lockdown made that impossible.
After getting the news his partner had a ‘missed’ miscarriage (when the baby has died but there are no miscarriage symptoms) David did what he thought men were supposed to do – suck it up and be the ‘man’ of the family. But after a few months he realised he needed to mourn and talk about his loss and by opening up to friends and dealing with the tragedy it helped not just himself, but his partner and his three-year-old daughter too.
Reaching out to mates to talk about mourning was daunting – but actually was essential in helping me deal with loss, writes David Jesudason.
I always saw myself as a good person. But experiencing the raw pain of baby loss made me a better one, writes Philippa Pearne.
“Last Christmas, our baby was in the freezer! We can’t believe she is actually here!”
"I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else," the star has said.
Researchers in Beijing analysed data from more than 255,000 pregnant women.