Follow my journey with Rose

Pre Conception Care 2014

• July 25, 2014 Pre-conception Care
• Aug 5 Looking for a donor
• Sept 3 What is Pre-Conception Care?
• Nov 3 Our greatest adventure
• Nov 5 Endometriosis & adenomyosis 1
• Nov 18 Preparing for the death of a child
• Nov 27 The long wait

Trying to Conceive 2014

• Dec 5, 2014 I’m ovulating!
• Dec 8 Trying to get pregnant
• Dec 12 Shroedinger’s Uterus
• Dec 21 Home Again
• Dec 30 Ink Painting – Waiting for you
• Jan 14, 2015 Endo & adeno 2: a hidden cost
• Jan 15, Poem – Here, in the dark
• Feb 2 Games and gardening

Our first pregnancy together: Tamlorn 2015

• Feb 13, 2015 Big News
• Feb 14 Still here, still pregnant
• Feb 17 Things without name
• Feb 22 My favourite embryo
• Feb 25 The Wishing Tree
• Feb 27 Passed all the first tests
• Feb 28 Lucky and happy
• March 6 Poem – Love Song
• March 11 8 Weeks Pregnant
• March 13 Heartache
• March 13 Some days are just sad
• March 14 Walking lightly
• March 15 It’s not pretty
• March 18 Ink Painting: Lantern
• March 22 Poem – So you’re in there

Losing Tamlorn 2015

• March 23, 2015 The passing of our Tamlorn
• March 14 After the miscarriage
• March 25 Surgery
• March 27 Love and Grief
• March 28 We invite you to grieve with us
• March 31 Distraught
• April 1 Burns
• April 7 Rose proposes
• April 8 Early loss care pack
• April 14 Our Greatest Adventure
• April 26 Poem – Saying Goodbye
• April 28 Poem – The Roar
• April 29 Carpe Diem
• May 10 Mother’s Day

Trying to Conceive, again 2015

• June 3 Looking for a donor – part 2.
• June 15 Sculpture: She’s a Mother on the Inside
• June 16 Painting mandala stones
• July 4 Ink Painting – She loves
• July 17 Walking with the spirits
• July 27 Lighting candles
• Aug 5 Going gently from miscarriage to trying to conceive
• Aug 7 My Artbook: Mourning the Unborn
• Aug 13 Rose’s Birthday – the Lowlights
• Aug 22 Etching – Even the cats have graves
• Aug 26 Holding Hope
• Aug 29 Art print: The Mother
• Sept 6 Blossom
• Sept 15 Tam’s Tree
• Sept 17 The Red Poppy
• Oct 22 In Memory of Our Tam
• Nov 5th Trying to get pregnant and breathe

Our second pregnancy together: Little Frog, first trimester 2015

• Nov 25, 2015 I’m pregnant
• Nov 27 Figuring out ovulation
• Nov 28 Team
• Dec 1 5 weeks pregnant and somewhat out of my mind
• Dec 7 6 weeks pregnant
• Dec 14 7 weeks pregnant
• Dec 23 8 weeks pregnant
• Dec 29 9 weeks pregnant
• Dec 30 There’s a first time for everything
• Jan 1, 2016 Happy New Year 2016!
• Jan 8 Keys to Locked Places

Little Frog, second trimester 2016

• Jan 18 Into the Second Trimester
• Jan 20 12 week scan went brilliantly!
• Jan 23 Joy in the Rain
• Jan 27 All is well
• Jan 31 13 weeks pregnant
• Feb 2 Poetry in the Night
• Feb 11 Pregnancy & Grief
• Feb 22 Hard work and lots of love
• Feb 29 18 weeks pregnant
• Mar 6 Melting Down
• Mar 11 19 weeks pregnant
• Mar 13 Anniversaries of loss
• Mar 20 20 weeks pregnant and date night
• Mar 31 22 weeks pregnant
• Apr 4 Poem – Terror
• Apr 9 23 weeks pregnant and sick as a dog
• Apr 13 Rainbows in the morning
• Apr 15 Listen to me talk about miscarriage and art on Radio
• Apr 26 25 weeks pregnant and a week of birthdays

Little Frog, third trimester 2016

• May 2 27 weeks pregnant and rearranging the house
• May 5 Peace
• May 7 Guest Post for Sands on Mother’s Day
• May 15 IDAHOT Picnic and 28 weeks pregnant
• May 16 Ink & Watercolour Painting: Rainbow Baby
• May 22 Catching some breaks
• May 29 30 weeks pregnant – Poem
• May 30 Standing in some other place
• June 4 Looking forward
• June 11 New life and death
• June 18 Babymoon
• June 21 How Rose and I conceived
• June 27 Blessings for our Daughter
• June 29 My Nana has passed away