What it feels like when your husband is diagnosed with cancer
One woman shares her story.
8 years ago
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This Is What It Feels Like To Be A Bereaved Mum at 27
Melissa Keane and Gareth Mc Donald had been together since they were teenagers. When they welcomed their baby boy Joshua in May, 2015, their family was complete and life was an adventure stretched out before them. Nobody could have predicted the tragedy to come. Last Christmas their carefully laid plans imploded when Gareth died suddenly on […]
10 years ago
Real-Life Birth Stories: Fertility Expert Jessica Bourke on Her Home Water Birth
If you had been considering a home birth but read the recent article about American mother Ashley Martin’s ‘traumatic’ experience, you probably had second thoughts about it. I want to share my own experience and discuss the big question this piece raises: in choosing a home birth, are you really taking a risk with your baby’s life? […]
11 years ago
Lia Stokes on why her daughter’s smile is all the sweeter for arriving a little late
“Initially I was angry and sad and confused. Why my child? Why me?”
11 years ago