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Breaking the Taboo

Is she your only one?

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Writing a blog is something I have been wanting to do for some time now but the fear of judgement has stopped me. For me, writing is very much a therapy - a journal I can share. Since losing my daughter, Emily at 17 weeks of pregnancy (something I feel that, in time, I will be able to open up about in my blog), I have been thrown into world of 'life after loss'. For me what made this loss so hard to deal with is the 'taboo', which comes with miscarraige (and through reading and my own research I have discovered surrounds infertility issues, SIDS and Still birth). I can only share my experiences following my miscarriage. But, if this in anyway can help to #breakthesilence, challenge the taboo around miscarriage and give at least one other person support in knowing that they are not alone in what they are experiencing. Is she your only one? A genuine question to ask, absolutely. And, I guess to most, it would also appear to be an easy question to answer - either ...
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This blog will either be the best one ever created by the end of the year or the most meh one. I’m leaning towards somewhere in the middle.  I am indeed the unoriginal writer, though, with no ill-intent.  I am the person who is inspired to write after reading a good book, an interesting article, a funny Insta post.  I am also the person who begins to write a 'novel' (yes, me!) and finds with every will in the world, that I just can't help the story running ever so similar to that really good book I just read. You never know some magic could happen and this could lead me to the top.  Hey, stranger things have happened.  So my name is Charlotte. I prefer Lotti. I'm 35 and live in Hartlepool in a lovely semi-detached house. I am a mummy to a 5-year old girl, step-mum to 11-year old boy, also mummy to 4-month old Poochon and the other-half to my partner. I work full-time as a primary teacher. I like to read, run and have a huge interest in emotional health and well-...
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