When I was 17, and in my last year of school I fell pregnant to my 18 year old boyfriend. We had been dating for over a year but I’d never really expected we would be together forever or anything. At the time I hadn’t even met his parents. They
I was a new mum, with a 6 week old baby boy…
and my husband was going to a stressful time at work. At the time I was adjusting to my new life as a mother and trying to figure out newborn baby stuff. My son seemed to have a lactose
My name is Rita, I’ve been married for 35 years to my husband Michael and we have 10 children. I’ve also had 5 miscarriages. When we were first married, I didn’t think I would be able to fall pregnant, because it didn’t happen straight away and you expect that it
It was not long after we arrived in Australia that I became pregnant. We already had two children and my husband told me ‘I don’t want more children, two is enough… you need to have an abortion or I will leave you.’ I cried in desperation. I didn’t want to
In El Salvador, where I was born, there is a saying that ‘Every baby comes with a loaf of bread under their arm’. It sounds silly in English, but basically it means that every baby comes bringing joy to the family, and there is no need to worry about how
My inspiration for this site is my daughter Sarai, my first child, who was born at 22 weeks and did not survive the delivery.
When I fell pregnant with Sarai I’d been married for seven months and was so happy and excited about the pregnancy. But at 17 weeks, in the