Trying…to build a life without children

Guest post by Caroline Stafford

I first met my friend Caroline through the medium of biscuits and terribly delicious they were too. I had been looking for something to send a friend in a tough spot and someone I know recommended her biscuit gift boxes. I was hooked on her business Kitsch Hen from the off. Hers were the first biscuits with stamped messages that made me laugh and cry. 

Plus I had never seen biscuits with messages for those traversing the pain of infertility before. As well as the other pains of life. Sweet they may taste, but Caroline’s messages are anything but sickly saccharine. The wise woman behind the biscuits was always going to be a good one and when we ended up making a connection, bizarrely through my radio show, as she refers to below, I was thrilled. 

I picked up the phone and we spoke like we had known each other for a while. She was generous enough to share with me some of her infertility experience and explain how she had poured that love and loss into her business and the rest of her life. I am now proud to call her a pal and still send a box or two a month of her clever and witty biscuits to someone I care about in need.

I invited Caroline to share her experience of trying for children here with you in the form of a guest post and had no idea if she would want to. I am grateful she agreed. I know you will feel the same. 

What happens when trying for a child doesn’t work out? She knows and wants to share her story with you. 

I am sure you will give Caroline Stafford the warm welcome she deserves:

This September marks 12 years since we began trying to have a baby, and almost three since we stopped. It feels like a lifetime, yet looking back, I can’t quite believe where all those years have gone.