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Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.

You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.