REAL LIFE STORIES
Meet the mums we support and read their stories
REAL LIFE STORIES
Meet the mums we support and read their stories
WHO WE ARE
Meet the mums we support and read their stories
WHO WE ARE
Meet the mums we support and read their stories
The news of a pregnancy or a recent birth is an exciting time for all prospective and existing parents. It can, however, be cruelly interrupted by the news of a cancer diagnosis and the worry that this brings to both you and your wider family.
Mummy’s Star has been set up specifically to offer support if you find yourself in this situation and we hope that by providing comprehensive information and links in this section, it will help you to get the support you need, access services that are available to you but most importantly know that you are not alone when you are going through this.
The information contained here is reviewed on an ongoing basis and will also be added to as new information becomes known about cancer in pregnancy. Likewise, as we receive more enquiries, we will add to the FAQs section in order to be able to try and answer as many of your questions in one place as possible.
Please contact us here and we can discuss more specifically how we can support you and your family.
CANCER SUPPORT IN & AROUND
PREGNANCY | BIRTH | LOSS | BEYOND
PREGNANCY FEARS AS A PARTNER
Support with your worries and concerns
Fears for another pregnancy
It is totally normal as a partner to have pregnancy fears. These can be fears of the unknown, of the things outside of your control or simply of becoming a parent for the first time.
When a cancer diagnosis is received in pregnancy however it can create fears on a different level and those being for the health of your partner and your baby.
As unusual as this will sound, there are few reasons why pregnancy cannot carry on as normal following a diagnosis of cancer and we do a tremendous amount of work as a charity with health professionals to encourage this approach so that you and your partner can, in essence, look forward to your pregnancy journey as much as you otherwise would have.
Fears For another pregnancy
It is quite common for the families we support to feel as though they have not yet completed the family they hoped to have. Following a cancer diagnosis, treatment and/or surgery, you may be thinking about conceiving again once it is safe to do so depending on the medication your partner may be on.
With this return to normality and planning the inevitable question will come up at some stage of 'But what if it happens again?'
This is totally understandable after everything you and your family have been through and it is important that you give yourself time to process this feeling; both yourself and together with your partner.
We hope that you will have been offered counselling or other psychological support to aid you through this. If not please do get in touch and we will see what other support we can find for you.
