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The power of positivity
For much of my adult life, I always recall being a relatively optimistic person. When disaster strikes, my mind goes into what I term my “Ultra Logic Mode”. My emotion levels are set to low, and my problem solving set to maximum. Because, by my very nature, I like to solve problems. I am lucky…
Time to Talk Day 4th Feb 2021; The Power of Small
Today is Time to Talk day; a day where we acknowledge the power that even the smallest conversation can have. Having experienced various difficult points with my own mental health (including before experiencing recurrent miscarriage), there are two conversations that stick out to me. The first was with a friend. At the time I was…
Dealing with anger after miscarriage
I recently came across the Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle in work, when trying to help a colleague with something going on in their life. In finding it, I found it spoke volumes to my own and continuing experiences with grief. Of all the five stages, during every miscarriage, Anger is the phase I have struggled with…
Dealing with other people’s pregnancies after loss
As a couple who have just entered our thirties, we’re at the prime age where a lot of our friends are starting their own families. It’s inevitable that after loss, you notice more, and are super sensitive to, other pregnancies; in the same way that when you are pregnant, you notice ten times as many…
Third time around; A father’s thoughts on recurrent miscarriage
On the 22nd March 2020, at roughly 11am, my wife, Jess, and I were told, once again, that we’d had a miscarriage. This was our third, having had one in January 2019 and another in June 2019. As it had both times before, my mind went blank and focused on a singular purpose. Something that…
Miscarriage and Coronavirus; what it’s like to have a miscarriage during a pandemic
I couldn’t tell you the first time I heard the word “coronavirus”. It must have been some time in early March, back when none of us could have had any sort inkling of the impact that COVID19 would have on the world. At the time, I was preoccupied with another health related worry; my third…
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A Very Un-British Miscarriage 