Getting Along With Your Son’s Girlfriend 101
Want to know how to get along with the love of your son’s life? It’s quite easy actually, just remember the following: She is NOT his...
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Nicci Coertze
Feb 21, 20195 min read
A Non-Perfect Match…
“She needs a kidney, otherwise she is going to die.” It was 2015. A mutual friend whispered the words “she is going to die”, but I could...
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Nicci Coertze
Feb 14, 20194 min read
The Shack (No, not that one!)
We have an old wooden shack in the corner of our yard that someone used to stay in a long time ago, but that we now use to store all our...
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Nicci Coertze
Feb 12, 20194 min read
Scattered Musings
Ever since the birth of my first child, I have always written down quotes or underlined deep, meaningful words about children in my...
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Nicci Coertze
Feb 4, 20194 min read
Chinese hugs
I have always been known to be a huge sushi lover. In fact, when I want to let my boys know that I love them more than anything in the...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 31, 20198 min read
Supporting Parents during Baby Loss
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...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 27, 20198 min read
A Perpetual Goodbye
My all in one photo I am thinking about saying goodbye a lot lately. Surprise surprise. And inevitably I think about my boys, and the...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 24, 20194 min read
Moping, moaning and mourning
My husband forgot to make my cup of coffee this morning. I am completely traumatized by that. You see, I am SO used to my cup of coffee...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 20, 20194 min read
The sun keeps on shining
I have obviously experienced this many, many times in life. That no matter what is going on in your life, the sun comes up and the sun...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 19, 20191 min read
24 Hours later
It’s 24 hours later. Nothing is better. Nothing. In fact, it’s worse – if that is even possible. Kevin is safe in Auckland. For that I am...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 18, 20191 min read
The end of the world
Safe travels my boykie. I miss you already
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 17, 20191 min read
My SONshine
You are my sunshine, my I only sunshine You make me happy when skies are grey You’ll never know dear, how much I love you Please don’t...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 16, 20194 min read
I can’t feel my face when I’m with you but I love it
20th Birthday Girl! Did you know it’s possible to miss someone when they are sitting right next to you? Did you know that it is possible...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 9, 20194 min read
A Continuous Goodbye
Saying goodbye bit by bit every day is damn hard. Every time I look at Kevin, I try to etch his face, his laugh, his smile even deeper...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 4, 20195 min read
My Firstborn
I loved you first. Someone asked me after my previous post if Nathin (my firstborn) wouldn’t be hurt by the fact that I called Kevin ‘the...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 3, 20194 min read
Diary of an unwilling long-distance Mom
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey, you’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t...
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Nicci Coertze
Dec 20, 20183 min read
Did I take up the cause, or did it take up me?
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...
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Nicci Coertze
Jun 4, 20185 min read
There is nothing ordinary about death
Photo by Burst on Pexels.com Just an ordinary Saturday morning. In an ordinary mall. In an ordinary clothing store stall. Trying on quite...
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Nicci Coertze
Apr 17, 20181 min read
Ode to an Angel
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...
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Nicci Coertze
Apr 9, 20185 min read
On being a Bereavement Doula in South Africa
But what do you DO Nicci?” I am an internationally qualified perinatal Birth & Bereavement Doula a seemingly complicated and/or unknown...
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