Lived Experiences (Page 5)

fostering in malta

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“Throughout our fostering story we learned that there are so many children in this country looking desperately for a loving family…“ It’s not always easy to know what to say to foster families… but so many times, in truth, people say the wrong thing. I’ll be honest that our fostering story taught us that it hurts when you’re told that the child you foster is lucky because you know they’re not really lucky, as that’s not the right word to describe the pain they’ve had to endure. We started our fostering story into foster care three years ago, we needed to take a course andRead More…

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“I lost my ectopic pregnancy baby. Unfortunately I found no information online about ectopic pregnancy in Malta, and this scared me…” When I saw the positive on the pregnancy test, I was excited, took two more to be sure and they were both positive. Dressed my son up in a promoted to big brother baby grow and woke up my partner. We then told our closest friends and family which added up to quite a few people, thinking we’ve had one completely healthy pregnancy, so no need to worry with the 12-week rule. 1 week later I had light brown spotting and discharge which lastedRead More…

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“Whilst giving birth during a pandemic, I was 32 weeks pregnant, considered vulnerable and in isolation, and my anxiety hit the roof…” March 2019 was when I found out I was pregnant the first time. My husband and I were very happy about it. A few days after whilst at work when I noticed that I had some brownish spotting. I confided in a colleague, who told me to go get checked out immediately. I called a local private hospital and had an appointment within the hour. The doctor there was very rude to me, bruised me during an internal ultrasound and told me toRead More…

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“All was fine until I started to have really bad cramps at around 5 weeks. Little did I know I was soon to experience a silent miscarriage …“ I was and am happily married for more than a year. We had been living together for a few years. We knew that we were ready for kids and so we both did all necessary check-ups, focused on living a healthy lifestyle, and also excluded unhealthy habits from our life. Then we decided we were ready to try for a baby. Prior to this time, I had a very stressful time at work, I was quite emotionalRead More…

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I am a 33 year old woman with Hyperparathyroidism, diagnosed at the age of 30. Normal blood test routine showed high levels of calcium which with hyperparathyroidism, causes high levels of parathyroid hormone and usually low vitamin D levels. This was my first blood test routine. It is very important to take blood test regularly, but, more importantly have your results carefully inspected by a professional. Some people may think that having high levels of calcium is good for the body. Unfortunately it is not true! I had done several scans of the neck to find the gland and after several tries I eventually wentRead More…

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“People ask me all the time how I managed to turn my life around, and my answer to everyone is to try the Six Pack Revolution. My name is Hayley and this is my story…“ At 35 years old, I had some life changing news. For a few months I had notbeen feeling my usual self, but had got on with everything as normal, and brushed it off with being stressed by work, and just tired. I finally went to the doctors and chatted about everything with my nurse, who was concerned that there may be an underlying cause, and asked me to bring inRead More…

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It has been 4 days since I’ve left a toxic, violent, abusive relationship with a narcissist I thought I would spend the rest of my life with, and I am struggling. The narcissistic damage I have experienced has been traumatic to say the least. I have a massive knot in my stomach because while my entire life has been ripped apart thanks to the narcissistic damage he inflicted on me, he keeps enjoying his life as though he is just fine, as though HE was the martyr in the relationship. He gets to keep his friends, the friends he vetted for me because they wouldRead More…

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Secondary infertility… Coming to terms and accepting that your family will only have 1 child when you and your husband wanted more. Finally, I am 35 years old and holding my baby boy in my arms for the first timeI! It is a powerful, loving, miraculous feeling and there and then I wanted my little baby to have a sibling. My husband and I started trying for the second one a year after our son was born. Another two years passed and nothing happened. It seemed that the odds and circumstances were against us. Meanwhile my hopes were extinguishing. Whenever I saw my friends pregnantRead More…

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“I was one of the unlucky ones developing tokophobia and HG. I could not hold any food or water down, I lost a lot of weight, I felt terrible…“ Pregnancy. That all-natural state of being for young women with uteri. A time where a woman blooms into full flower, the climax of her existence. Or at least, these are the problematic messages teenage girls and young women receive about their place in the world, their bodies and their identity. So as a young woman I was eager to tick the boxes in the recipe of a fulfilled life of a woman. I wanted children, ohRead More…

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“2020 was the year in which I turned 34 and it is this year that I was finally officially diagnosed with stage three endometriosis …“ The start of my teens brought about the biggest changes in my life. This change for many was a normal and a smooth transition, everyone was expecting it. My friends and I were all expecting our periods, so was I. As expected, at 13 I got my period, I thought it was not going to be a big deal, I was in secondary school and like the rest of my friends I just took it in my stride. However, forRead More…