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Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

noun

  1. Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin) [wool, -st, uh, n-kraft, -krahft], 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
  2. Percy Bysshe [bish], 1792–1822, English poet.
  3. a male or female given name.


Shelley

/ ˈʃɛlɪ /

noun

  1. ShelleyMary (Wollstonecraft)17971851FBritishWRITING: writer Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
  2. ShelleyPercy Bysshe17921822MBritishWRITING: poet Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Shelley Romaniuk, 33, was told she had miscarried while attending a 12-week scan, and says she was left alone with no support from health services.

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Shelley and her husband found out they were expecting their first child nine years ago, and attended their routine scan without realising they had already lost the baby - a missed miscarriage.

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While waiting for the D&C procedure, Shelley started experiencing cramps at home and went to A&E.

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After years of trying to conceive naturally, Shelley and her husband decided to seek private fertility treatment, and the couple are now expecting a baby girl in a few weeks.

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But Shelley believes the lack of mental health support she received made conceiving harder.

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