I’d always wanted a brother or a sister, but Mum’s revelation was the start of something far bigger.

Grabbing my hand, my husband Moustafa, then 27, smiled nervously as we returned our gaze to the screen. ‘Can you hear that?’ the sonographer asked and I listened to the thump-thump-thump coming from t

Staring at the single pink line on my pregnancy test, I wiped away a tear. Negative again. It was November 2017 and it was an all-too-familiar sight. My husband Sherry, then 32, and I had been trying

Most expectant mums spend their entire pregnancy thinking about that magical moment when they’ll finally get to meet their baby for the first time. Who they’ll take after, what colour eyes and hair th

When my pugnaciously no-nonsense granny set about constructing our family tree, she cut through the ambiguity of my place on it by adding (grafted) after my name. It was a fair, if blunt, acknowledgem

Ebony’s mum had turned things around and was back in her life. But then a brutal act robbed them of everything…