On October 6, 2018 my husband Kyle and I were married. It was one of the happiest days of our lives. We had been through so much already as a couple, and couldn’t wait to start a family together. We talked about how many children we wanted, and even had names picked out before we […]
As if the unknowns of pregnancy aren’t scary enough, add in a cancer diagnosis. This was our reality. One of my biggest fears for all of my life has been pregnancy. The whole struggle with medical anxiety, mixed with my sensory issues, and a low mental threshold for pain just never made it something I
My husband and I met on a blind date in 2010 and have been married for 7 years now. We originally began our journey to become parents in January 2020. As COVID hit and the world shut down, we had a conversation in May 2020 about taking a break. Little did we know we were
In 2023 we started trying for a baby. I have PCOS and had to use clomid and we were so lucky to get pregnant on our third round! Only for it to turn out to be a blighted ovum MMC. 3 months later (my first cycle back after the MMC) I got pregnant again on
When I learned I was pregnant with Oscar Apollo, I felt deep in my bones that this pregnancy and his birth would be both very sacred to me and very different than the births of his other siblings. I did not know what this meant, but now I have a better idea. The first 16
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? Getting pregnant was not easy for us, though we thought it would be. We spent a year after our wedding (which happened to be at the prime of COVID) tracking and timing everything. Eventually I scheduled
I got married when I was 23 years old. At that time my biggest dreams were to finish my studies, take a trip and expand our family. I always dreamed of having a boy and a girl. 6 months after getting married I started bleeding for a month without stopping. After many medical tests we
Our fertility journey started in 2018 after returning from our first big trip through Europe. After trying for 12 months, we decided to seek help. This is how I learned I had endometriosis and adenomyosis, and suddenly last 10 years of pelvic pain and horrible periods finally made sense. Then, in 2019 we gave up
I’ve probably rewritten this story a dozen times in the months leading up to sharing it with the world. How do you narrow down almost 5 years, 4 pregnancies, 6 babies, and a total life change in few enough words that anyone would actually care to read it. Truth be told, each of these 4
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My name is Kayla. I’ve been with my husband, Andrew, for almost 7 years now. In April of 2019, we discovered we were pregnant with our first son, Brady. We had no idea the complications I would endure. From fainting, to silent migraines, to ending our pregnancy at 38w1d with severe preeclampsia and our little