In my teens I had my perfect life all planned out; married in my 20s, 3 kids by the time I'm 30 and we all live happily ever after. By my early 30s I found myself single again and things not going quite to plan.
Read moreWho
I get concerned about being alone and disabled and having to move into a nursing home.
Read moreMy Empty Arms
It’s like the light inside me faded, and now is gone
That little flicker of hope, faded and died, the day I lost my son
My Story
Had I known at the age of 27 that that was my last chance of having a child, I would never have had the abortion.
Read moreBaby Girl
I have felt the love in holding you my precious baby girl
I've touched your face and kissed your hand and promised you the world
For The Others
Here is a link to my poem. I wrote it for Mother's Day but it is about how we are all individuals with differing reasons for our situation and it's a plea for understanding from people who do have children.
Read moreNo-one should be Judged
I write this as a childless, married female in her late 50’s. I am not childless by choice and not childless from infertility. I just am.
Read moreSpeaking as a mother who never had children…. My Childlessness Story
Until recently I never even realised I had a ‘Childlessness Story’. I’ve never been pregnant, or tried to get pregnant, intentionally, unintentionally or surreptitiously.
Read moreChronically Childless
Out of the blue
Hit by an awful viral illness
I presumed I’d recover
It never occurred to me otherwise
Read moreTrauma, Childlessness and Grief: Finding the Missing Piece of the Picture
Talking to my therapist recently, I described how I felt trapped and powerless in relation to my childlessness. Had I ever felt like that before, she asked?
Read moreChristmas 2019
Advent signals hope to those who believe, which reaches a peak on Christmas Eve. Working by then to a state of elation, and for me bringing also a troubled relation!
Read morePregiudizi E Giudizi : STOP!
Vivere a Roma e non avere figli ha significato solitudine. Solitudine perchè qui in particolare - la città dei cattolici - famiglia significa aver figli e tu non sei una famiglia neppure con un compagno.
Read moreA Red Gingham Dress
Last year I wrote the story of how my identity as a woman was shaped by the possibility and the impossibility of having children.
Read moreMy Childless Journey
From an early age, I always thought that I’d be a mum. As I grew up I would sometimes imagine
my children and how life would be with my family.
The Ache
Curled up, tightly, on my bed, one dark and empty night, I wrote. I did not know I had a story. ‘Childlessness’ was not in my vocabulary.
Read moreAnon
I never thought you were even on my radar.
The chance of ever meeting someone like you was a minuscule percentage.
Read moreNo Baby No Love
I would never hold my own baby.
I would never have her skin against mine.
Escape from Mummy-Ville (on why we need each other).
Unprepared, guard down, familiar social space, low ebb after long day
I’d stopped. The life train kept going, my limp body in tow.
Healing eluded its own arrival
Read moreBear with me
I would like to give you something palatable and or eloquent, however at this point, I cannot. Largely as I am not a professional writer! Instead, I am someone who has some things to say.
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