A few months have passed since I last posted on this site and a lot has happened – all positive!  I uploaded another video diary onto YouTube.   After that I did very little aside from ‘be uncomfortable’ and wait for baby to arrive, oh and try to plan for labour and birth …

A week after my due date I gave birth to my son.  Labour was long and intense – and the birth was even more intense – it’s true when they say ‘nothing prepares you’ …  Despite that, we are both healthy and progressing well.

Looking back now, my miscarriages seem minor compared to actually having my son here with me now.  I’ll never forget the trauma of experiencing my first miscarriage and the sorrow of my second one.  However, the experience of labour and birth was more emotional and traumatic, in its own way, and I’m still healing physically and emotionally from it all.

I was often told:

– keep my chin up,

– one day I will birth a live child

– miscarriages are common

– time heals all

None of these things made me feel better at the time but all turned out true, even the ‘chin up’ one.