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This Is What It Feels Like To Be A Bereaved Mum at 27

This Is What It Feels Like To Be A Bereaved Mum at 27

Melissa Keane and Gareth Mc Donald had been together since they were teenagers. When they welcomed their baby boy Joshua in May, 2015, their family was complete and life was an adventure stretched out before them. Nobody could have predicted the tragedy to come. Last Christmas their carefully laid plans imploded when Gareth died suddenly on […]

11 years ago

Real-Life Birth Stories: Fertility Expert Jessica Bourke on Her Home Water Birth

Real-Life Birth Stories: Fertility Expert Jessica Bourke on Her Home Water Birth

If you had been considering a home birth but read the recent article about American mother Ashley Martin’s ‘traumatic’ experience, you probably had second thoughts about it. I want to share my own experience and discuss the big question this piece raises: in choosing a home birth, are you really taking a risk with your baby’s life? […]

12 years ago