Oops, sorry.  One minute I was asking S to install Wordpress on the web server for me so I could get on and sort out the site, the next minute it was done and Wordpress had put some default content up for people to view.  Which was not quite what I had in mind, if indeed I had anything in there at all.

So it’s time to stagger forth out of the wings and hope that nobody noticed the unsteady start.

While I’m not sure that a blog necessarily needs any reason to exist, this blog is more an accompaniment to the rest of the site, which I largely decided to set up because I learnt a few useful things I wanted to share with people, when in some areas information can be so hard to come by.  The most notable of these, in my case, was when I suffered recurrent miscarriages along the road to conceiving my son, Harvey.

On the occasion of my first miscarriage, the hospital gave me a leaflet entitled ‘We’re sorry you’re having a miscarriage’.  It was full of condolences and contained very little practical information about what to expect, when I could start trying again or even the basic mechanics.  The subsequent journey involved a lot of digging for information, as well as much heartache, and a mental promise that I would some day sit down and write all the things I had found out in the hopes that it might help someone else.

My son is now 2, so it feels quite late to be getting down to this, but the delay has been caused by two things.  The first is a very simple need to care for my son and be a good mum, having finally got that far.  The second is a less cheerful reason: my chronic depression.  Having suffered for well over ten years, the depression hit back worse after Harvey’s birth, in what should have been the happiest time of my life.

I don’t know where the future leads.  Haven’t a clue.  But the journey, along with some of the more useful stuff I know, will be recorded here.

m x