Boost your confidence for birth after previous pregnancy loss

If you have been through pregnancy loss you don't need me to tell you that this can dent your confidence in your body, in pregnancy and birth, and can raise your anxiety.

Whether it was miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, there are complicated feelings and fears, from grief to guilt, and a whole host of others, sometimes contradictory (joy and sorrow). When you get pregnant again you can feel joy of this new baby, and guilt from your loss. Or you may feel that you can't get excited about this pregnancy, in case something happens, and then feel guilty about that.

Alongside complicated feelings, your relationship with your body can become complicated.

Pregnancy loss can lead to disassociation and disconnection, and even distrust of your body.

And then there is the fear. The fear of losing this baby. The fear of forgetting. The fear of the birth being more complicated because…