Full term abortions - a phrase that doesn't reflect science or medicine and that should have no place in the birthing community.

How to cope with baby loss during the festive season.

I am a Perinatal Bereavement Doula. Yes, unfortunately working with dead babies is part of my job. I dry broken parents’ tears. I take...

The loneliest club in the world… The Baby Loss Club is not for the fainthearted. It is a club with non-negotiable terms and lifelong...

It was cold in the doctor’s consulting room. Carry* was laying on her back, waiting to hear their baby’s heartbeat. But then she...

Supporting women during a TOP It’s amazing what happens when I begin to identify myself as a doula to women (it happened again this...

Photo by Burst on Pexels.com Just an ordinary Saturday morning. In an ordinary mall. In an ordinary clothing store stall. Trying on quite...

I look at your perfect little ears and I hear the songs of angels in the sky I look at your mouth and hear unspoken words about babies...

Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com My name is Nicci and I am a Bereavement Doula from Pretoria (South Africa), assisting parents with...

I wrote this in Afrikaans originally but I have translated it for this website: Babies should smell like baby powder and Elizabeth Anne’s...

Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com Except for different room numbers, the two doors looked identical. If you could have peeked inside,...

This was my first official experience as Bereavement Doula and one that I will always keep very close to my heart. I wrote about this in...