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Read moreMeet the founder: Stephanie Phillips
Being childless not by choice is the taboo subject of an unrecognised minority.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Jody Day
One of the many hidden difficulties of involuntary childlessness can be social isolation.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Michael Hughes, Australia
I have always believed that we should all give something back. Once we had come to terms with our childlessness, we realised that we as a couple had made it through the other side, knowing many don't.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Vicky Page, USA
I am trying to live with an open heart and mind whilst being childless not by choice and moving forward to live the life I have to the fullest.
Read moreMeet the Champions: Rod Silvers and James Petherick
"What we admire the most about Stephanie Phillips is that she is giving a voice to those whom have not: World Childless Week supports the childless community to find, courage, strength and determination to make a difference."
Read moreMeet the Champion: Meriel Whale, Brighton
World Childless Week is important because we need connection, we need to see ourselves reflected in the world and we need to be visible.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Anne Barratt, Sydney, Australia
I'm CNBC and now dedicate my career to helping others through my professional practice who are finding it less than easy to copy with being CNCB by addressing whole body health , including mental and emotional
Read moreMeet The Champion: Lesley Pyne, London
Feelings of isolation and being alone are very common when you are CNBC and one of the wonderful things about World Childless Week is that it creates a world-wide community having open, honest conversations about those subjects that matter to us.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Stella Duffy, OBE, London
The voices of queer women and of working class women are often missing from discussions around infertility and childlessness not by choice.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Prof. Cristina Archetti
As a media researcher I find it astonishing that, in the age of communication, there is so much silence about so many millions of people around the globe
Read moreMeet the Champion: Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle, Canada
When the dream of motherhood doesn’t come true, where do we turn too? I think one of the keys towards acceptance can be found in connecting and exchanging with people who share the same life experience
Read moreMeet the Champion: Sandy Langhart Michelet, USA
I feel honored to play a small part in World Childless Week. Childless women are everywhere…we’ve just been too afraid to raise our head, much less our voices.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Linda Malm from Sweden
Today the World Childless Week is taking the awareness to another level and help people know that they are not alone.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Vandia Karun from Germany
I am grateful and happy to be a part of the World Childless Week team, as I remember how lonely it can feel being involuntary childless.
Read moreMeet the Champion: Yvonne Maier
When my best friend became a mother I wondered how in earth could I still be her friend with this between us? What happens, when she finds her Mummy-tribe and I'm all on my own? No friends. No children.
Read moreWorld Childless Week - German Facebook Page
Vanida and Yvonne have been working quietly behind the scenes in order to create a World Childless Week Facebook page for Germany.
Read moreWCW rewind 2017 - Why Don't We Adopt?
The truthful answer is a multitude of reasons …
Read moreWCW rewind to 2017 - Letter to my Abusive Husband
This article contains sensitive material.
We both wanted children, and we wanted them soon. I was 26 but felt ready for motherhood. You were 7 years older, keen not to be an ‘old dad’, so we planned to start trying as soon as we got married. Our wedding was the whole shebang. White dress, church bells, bridesmaids, photographs, cake and a lovely reception with all of our friends and family.
Read moreWCW rewind to 2017 - Unexplained Infertility
I realized something was wrong when I first started tracking my cycle about six months into the process of try to conceive. My basal body temperatures were much lower than the baseline on the chart I was using. This continued for four cycles until I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and started on levothyroxine. I thought this must be the problem and thought I had a fix. I was wrong.
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