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Pregnancy loss and body image
I have heard that one way to gain a healthy body image is to reframe your attitude towards your body to focus on how well it works, how strong it is, how lucky I am to be able-bodied etc. But that was a huge struggle when my baby died inside this body. I didn’t have faith in it to do its job anymore. -
Fathers and Pregnancy Loss
“She was my baby too…”
Dads emotional needs are no different to mums, they need acknowledgement of their grief, and affirmation that they have a right to grieve. They need to be allowed to express their emotions, be it sadness, guilt, anger in a supportive environment. And they need time.
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Maternal Mental Health
We (Claire and Jen) had a chat about our maternal mental health and with nine (NINE!) pregnancies between us we had so many different experiences!