This work is deeply personal to me, not because I have all the answers, but because I know what it’s like when trying to have a baby quietly takes over more and more of your life. I experienced miscarriage, failed IVF, successful IVF and profound loss. Somewhere along the way, I also lost parts of myself. It took becoming physically unwell and partially losing my voice for almost a year to make me stop and begin turning some of the attention I’d spent searching everywhere else back towards myself. That changed the way I understood support — and eventually became the foundation of the work I do today.