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The God who Sees Me
Infertility feels like being smashed against the rocks again and again and again without end. Infertility feels like death by a thousand paper cuts; daily triggers causing invisible emotional seizures which start and stop as they please. This pair of… Continue reading
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Inertia
I don’t know how to write anymore. When I was waiting for H to arrive, the pain of being childless was so acute that the words flowed out of me. I couldn’t sleep for the noise inside my heart, and… Continue reading
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Prodigal
I’ve discovered this beautiful song this week. For me, it encapsulates the messy, lonely seasons when we feel the gaping distance between ourselves and God and don’t know how to get back from where we are. We can feel haunted… Continue reading
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“I’m fine”.
I feel like I’m screaming into pitch darkness. I can’t see, can’t find my way. It’s just blackness. I’m stuck in this one place, the earth beneath my feet well-trodden, well-worn. This grief, this longing, this yearning to have control… Continue reading
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God doesn’t have favourites
September 2021 I stood in our hallway, clutching my friend and sobbing into her shoulder. “God doesn’t have favourites” she whispered into my ear, soothingly. I’d just received another second baby pregnancy announcement and this one hit home so much… Continue reading
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“Clip in!”
2021 breaks in and our hopes are for the wonder and miracle of pregnancy to delight and expand our family again. With one embryo left in the ‘freezer’ we long to land on the same side of the coin as… Continue reading
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Looking Beyond my Longing
How are you doing? It’s been a while! I’ve thought of this space often. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to write; I have. So many things have fought for this precious place over the last couple of years including… Continue reading
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Baby Loss Awareness Week 2019
I’ve written a fair amount about our personal experiences of miscarriage. For today, during Baby Loss Awareness Week, as I think of so many women and couples who know this reality, here’s another voice saying it just as it is… Continue reading
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It’s a…
As I sit in the almost-darkness of the nursery cradling the baby back to sleep, I can’t quite believe I’m here. I study the walls now decked with a rainbow string of fairy lights and pretty pictures and ponder how… Continue reading
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A few thoughts on IVF
Despite every success story you’ve ever heard (and thankfully there are lots of them), statistically there are actually many more tales of IVF (In vitro fertilisation) not resulting in a positive conclusion. Recent statistics state that on average IVF fails… Continue reading










