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One in four – 100 words

May 14, 2023 By Ellen

Trigger warning – pregnancy loss One in four You never forget the first drop of blood, a sickening stillness – the knowing the not knowing   You never forget what happened next, recalibrating a future – the telling the not telling   You never forget the inadequacy of ‘I’m sorry’, the hurt of turned away […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, baby loss, creative writing, miscarriage, women's experience

June 2008 – 20 weeks – 100 words

May 13, 2023 By Ellen

Trigger warning: pregnancy loss   June 2008 – 20 weeks   There was sunshine on the day you left spring summersaulting to summer and optimism, but you’d gone and I didn’t know   I carried imaginings future selves, with ice cream, on beaches… my motherhood – calmer, stronger, wiser, Not a woman who didn’t know […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, writing therapy

A letter to Nicola Sturgeon

September 5, 2016 By Ellen

Dear Nicola I was sorry to hear your news about the miscarriage. Now you’ve joined the sad and sorry ranks of women who lost a baby. Welcome. There are quite a lot of us, aren’t there? Some of us went on to have children, others didn’t – they couldn’t or decided the risk was too […]

Filed Under: feminism, other things I have learned Tagged With: baby, childcare, childless, children, family, feminism, in the world, miscarriage, Nicola Sturgeon, SNP, women

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