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MRKH Connect is a charity with a mission to connect those with MRKH all over the world. No one should feel alone, we are 1 in 5000 #mrkhempowerment ❤️

I'M OK is a project encouraging individuals to tal I'M OK is a project encouraging individuals to talk about their emotional wellbeing and mental health experiences in their own words whilst telling their story through their portraits. This project has never before focused on just one condition and we are so excited to see MRKH highlighted in this way. 

We all know that mental health impact is often under represented and supported so this project aims to refocus our attention on the impact MRKH has on our mental health and emotional wellbeing in our own words unfiltered, unscripted, unreleased. A way to shine a light but also provide comfort and support in recognisable feelings when so often we can feel alone in these thoughts.

Whether you are living with MRKH or supporting someone with MRKH wherever you are in the 🌎, we invite you to share with us only if you feel comfortable to do so. 

There are so many ways to approach your submission and no right or wrong way to share your picture or story. Just like Mia shows here it doesn't even have to show your face it's about sharing an image that you can see yourself in.

We would love to share yours 💜

#mrkh #warrior #mentalhealth #mrkhempowerment #hope
Infertility is THIS! @ceci_femmecollective we see Infertility is THIS! @ceci_femmecollective we see you! 💜✨

#mrkh
Today is International Youth Day and a great chanc Today is International Youth Day and a great chance to shout about the MRKH Youth Program. Registration is open for our September Program set! 

Coming together in a safe space to learn from each other and find tools for our journey can be so meaningful but don't just take our word for it see some of the feedback from individuals who have been part of this program. 

This is a program that may surprise you and a relaxed way to meet others in a small group setting, online.

This program is...
🤍Peer led and run online.
🤍Small group, relaxed and informal,
🤍Designed to help young MRKHers move towards a better acceptance of MRKH
🤍A way to develop strategies to help process your journey
🤍Focused on wellbeing whilst making new connections in a safe space.

Run by young MRKHers for young MRKHers aged 18-25* 🤍

Our next program will start on 9th September and runs every Wednesday evening for 6 weeks.

Find out more by following the link below, in our bio or drop us a 💜 below!

https://mrkhconnect.co.uk/youth-program-2026-from-9th-september/

#mrkh #hope #journey #community #support #friendship #mrkhempowerment #mrkheducation #peersupport #warrior #infertility #mrkhyouthprogram #strongertogether
Strength is more than physical it's something deep Strength is more than physical it's something deep inside us. 

We don't always know its there.  In fact we may think it is something we don't have at all. 

We may look at others and wonder how they do it and perhaps even how they make it look "so easy". 

But strength doesn't have to be big and flashy.  It is often subtle and unobtrusive keeping us moving even when it feels overwhelming. 

Building your power your way.

#journey #mrkh #infertility #mrkhempowerment #strength
Finding people who stand with you, listen to you a Finding people who stand with you, listen to you and support you in the rain and the sun are your people. 

Find them and cherish them 💜

🎨 @supple.room 

#mrkh #support #hope #community #mrkhempowerment
We want to give a shout out to the lovely Emma-Mai We want to give a shout out to the lovely Emma-Mai from our community who inspired today's post (probably without even knowing). 

Our society draws our attention to parenthood as a norm without considering that childlessness (elective or otherwise) is the reality for many and is no less valid. 

It's not a case of one path is more important than the other but that they are different and not really comparable at all. 

The only similarity is that emotions play in to journeys on both sides where pathways with children as well as without can be paved with uncertainty, frustration and sadness but also, importantly joy. 

We celebrate the wonderful successes of science that brings about the chances that many hope for but equally we see so many in our community (including members of the Board) thriving without the children they hoped for. 

Childlessness or "Otherhood" as coined by the wonderful Emma-Mai may not be the path many of us expected or chose but it doesn't mean we can't live, thrive and build a legacy. 

Our success and legacy is not dictated by the ability to have a child but by striving to be the best version of ourselves, to find our path and importantly our happy.  Whatever that looks like for us.

If you haven't seen our resources on Life Without Children follow the link in our bio and if you have a story to share we would love to hear from you - DM for more details!

💜

#mrkh #childless #lifewithoutchildren #support #peersupport #community #mrkhempowerment #mrkheducation #infertility
Recently, we asked our community to write for us a Recently, we asked our community to write for us and share a submission based around the theme: A day in my life as a person with MRKH. ❤️

We are so thrilled and grateful to share our first submission; a sensitive, brave, and insightful poem that will leave your heart feeling recognised, seen, and warm. ✨

A poem by SiTa, titled:

Hidden in Plain Sight

You ask me ‘How are you?’
I say ‘I’m okay’
We smile, and we talk
And continue our day

You ask me ‘How are you?’
I tell you ‘I’m fine’
Because I’m not ready
To cross that line

You ask me ‘How are you?’
I respond ‘I’m alright’
While I put on a smile
And continue the fight

The fight to keep my feelings hidden
The fight to keep it all inside
The fight to keep you in the dark
While I’m trying not to lose my light

I managed to hide my feelings so well
Some days I felt like an empty shell
I put on my armour and pushed you away
Until I opened up one day
Until I found the courage to share
Until I decided that I don’t care

Don’t care that you will know my grief
Don’t care about what others believe

I am enough the way I was born
And although for some time I felt forlorn
Felt lonely, felt hopeless, felt incomplete
My story does not make me weak

I grew stronger,
Grew sure of who I am
And my future’s no longer
Without happy end.

By SITa

Thank you, SiTa for this wildly courageous poem. 💫

#MRKH #POETRY #COMMUNITY #MRKHWARRIOR
"I'm fine" A phrase that can hide so much. So of "I'm fine"

A phrase that can hide so much.

So often, it is used to protect ourselves from sharing how we really feel.

"I'm fine" can be as much a security blanket as a call for help.

Take time to recognise your own feelings, check on those close to you and know that whatever you are feeling you are not alone.

Support can be found in many forms, if you ever need it we are here 💜

#mrkh #warrior #journey #infertility #mrkhempowerment #peersupport #mentalhealth #community
We would like to send a heartwarming and congratul We would like to send a heartwarming and congratulatory message to Lauren Fowler on the announcement of her pregnancy, following a womb transplant. After being diagnosed with MRKH, Lauren believed she would never carry a child of her own. However, due to a pioneering procedure, a womb transplant, Lauren’s dream has come true. ❤️

Understanding the sensitivity of this announcement, we would like to extend a giant hug to all those who continue to face the confronting realities of MRKH. Our DMs remain open. 🫂✨

“On a recent visit back to her hometown of Rainham in Kent, Lauren Fowler bumped into an old school friend who took one look at her and gasped.

‘She said, “Oh my goodness, how on earth can you be pregnant?”,’ recalls Lauren, 37, who works in marketing for a recruitment firm.

Lauren had confided to her when they were still at school that she, like thousands of women in the UK, was born without a womb.

On May 11 last year, Lauren’s sister Kelly Jagga, aged 40 (a mother to Ashley, 13, Louis, nine, and Sophie, 11), gave Lauren ‘the most amazing gift’, undergoing hours of surgery – and weeks of painful recovery – to donate her womb to her so she could experience pregnancy, something that she feared would always be beyond her reach.

‘You have to really, really want it to get through a womb transplant. But to be pregnant with my child means the world to me – and I just hope other women in my position get the same chance.’”

Lauren, we are sending so much love to you and your family. 

To read the article, search this web link: 

https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-16025353/pregnant-medical-miracle-womb-transplant-hope-childless-women.html

#mrkh #uterustransplant
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