Table of Contents
Introduction - xi
Disenfranchised Grief
The Story Which Does Not Have an End by Alice Jolly - 3
Pronatalism and Me: Waking up from the Trance of Motherhood by Jody Day - 14
A ‘Nearly Life’ by Rosie Wilby - 24
The Unspoken Trauma of Almost-Motherhood by Noni Martins - 29
Small, Soft, Grey Pig by Laura Barton - 38
Society
A Historical Perspective on Women Without Children by Emma Duval - 47
The Silence of Shame by Yvonne John - 57
Grief is Not a Competition by Alice Rose - 71
‘Other People’ Problems by Gemma Stone - 79
Choice
Elodie by Hilary Freeman - 89
Flashbacks and Tricycles: Chosen Childlessness and Trauma Disorders by Quinn Clark - 102
Decisions by Sophia Money-Coutts - 117
‘Happy Ending’ by Seetal Savla - 124
Parenting
Self-portrait, Pregnant by Miranda Ward - 137
The Baby Loss Diaries by Nana-Adwoa Mbeutcha - 153
Loss as a Superpower by Tom Wateracre - 173
The Baby Loss Diaries by Donald Mbeutcha - 181
Living
Eshet Chayil by Sarah Lewis - 197
Work in Progress by Rageshri Dhairyawan - 210
Notes from Here by Kat Brown - 220
Imogen and Delilah by Natalie Sutherland - 235
Hard Glad by Stella Duffy - 247
Resources - 257
Acknowledgements - 263
Supporters - 266