Stories about children’s feelings
Overcoming a loss
Vanshika, aged 8 and a half, wrote this poem to express her feelings about losing a sibling, after her mum experienced a molar pregnancy.
Talking to my daughter about miscarriage
Nicola reflects on how hard it was to tell their daughter that their baby had died.
I had a second trimester loss
Sarah writes about having a miscarriage at 17 weeks and talking to her 7 year old son about it.
The mummy he used to know – siblings and pregnancy loss
Jemma describes the emotional impact of recurrent miscarriage.
Miscarriage and marking a loss
Process of natural miscarriage followed by private family burial in a woodland.
We coped with recurrent miscarriage differently – and our son blamed himself
A dad shares his feelings about his wife’s repeated miscarriages, and the impact on his wife and son.