Self-care:
Articles to help you care for yourself compassionately after miscarriage or pregnancy loss
Healing foods after Miscarriage or Stillbirth
After miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth we are often overrun by emotions and our focus can be predominately on bringing healing to our hearts and minds. Whilst this is super important, the role of food in supporting our emotional and mental health can...
What you need to know about depression and pregnancy loss
When I first lost a baby I wondered if I would get lost in a sea of depression for the oncoming season. Then these words came to mind as an inner strength: ‘you have a choice'. Although I did experience sadness and frustration after that loss, I was proactive in...
What you need to know about the trauma of miscarriage and pregnancy loss
It took me four losses to realize that miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and other pregnancy loss are always traumatic. There is always some sort of trauma involved and yet nobody ever said it out loud. My grandma’s death, when I was 14, was the first...
Why using art for healing in miscarriage and pregnancy loss works
Art is not just for artists. Using art materials as a form of expression and processing our feelings can be a powerful tool in emotion exploration. This is especially important in grief. In pregnancy loss grief where opportunities to express and engage with our...
How to manage pregnancy loss grief when you have other children to attend to
We recognize that we need time to heal physically and emotionally, but if there are other children that we still have to attend to, the day to day of working through grief can feel overwhelming, can't it?! After losing babies I held my children in a new light - I...
Self-care after Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: My Story
I have gone through the grieving process of losing a child in utero four times but it has taken that long to believe in the need for self-care! The concept felt selfish and an unnecessary luxury but I now recognise that really it is an investment in all the people...
Why Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Can Make You So Tired
I wasn’t surprised I was tired the week surrounding the miscarriages of my children. I had doctor appointments, surgeries, and face-slap grief to attend to. But at four weeks post-loss with my body readjusting back to normal life, I started to wonder: Why am I...