Childless quotes

was originally published during Christmas 2020, when many of us across the globe were under pandemic-related restrictions. However, although that may have changed, much of the experience of being childless at Christmas hasn't... Many of us are hanging out in the round-the-world round-the-clock live chat in our private online community - come and join us there for empathic company and some random and often frivolous chat to distract you! However you are spending your holidays this year, I…

Expressing the grief of losing a child you never conceived or met is hard to describe. Yet the sense of loss is real. I now accept childlessness not by choice.

Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK – our version of ‘Mother’s Day’ and I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the childless. Yes, today isn’t meant to be ‘our day’, but it could have been, and so today we honour the children that live only in our hearts. Maybe that sounds ghoulish, but it doesn’t have to be. I’ve made friends with my ghosts now and they live in a tender, wistful part of my heart – so much so that when I see a child dancing whilst her father looks down lovingly upon her, my…

The olive green awareness ribbon was designed by Brandi Lytle to raise awareness for the childless community. It is a symbol of courage and unity.

The sadness and grief of childlessness is mine, the shame is not. It is imposed by pronatalist cultures and family structures that tell us womanhood equals motherhood and childless women are of less value. Childless women reject this oppressive social construct as it assaults our sense of self. The grief is mine, the shame is not. www.theemptycradle.com

Infertility, childlessness, Babyloss, grief

It seems that some, perhaps many, do not believe that we are childless not by choice. In their minds, if we wanted a baby badly enough, we would have done…

Image courtesy of http://gateway-women.com Once again I have to apologize for my absence on my blog. I have been VERY busy. I got a new job! I really like it and I am excited to be working outside of the home. A lot has happened in infertility-land since I last blogged. My husband and I have come to yet another decision. We are not doing an IVF cycle this year. We are officially on hiatus from trying to get pregnant. We are going to re-evaluate how we feel and what we want to do in Spring of…