My name is Charlie and I live in Buckinghamshire, England and have been with my husband for 15 years. We were married in 2018 and started trying for a family straight after the wedding. It took us 19 months to fall pregnant and we were over the moon. I didn’t think anything would go wrong; […]
Pregnancy loss can be one of the most difficult things a family faces. It is so important to talk openly and honestly about the feelings of grief that one may experience during this time. Grief is a natural, but complicated process-there are many different ways to handle it, but for those who find peace through
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Our journey started in 2019, just a few short months after we got married when we decided we were ready to start trying for a baby. By September I realized something wasn’t right with my cycles and later was diagnosed anovulatory and referred to a fertility clinic. In October of 2020, we tried our first
Our journey to expand our family began in August of 2016. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary with a naïve proclamation that we would start our family. First try, pregnant! I look back at that time and the person I was and think of how innocent and excited that I was. I did not know
In March 2018 we welcomed our first daughter. The pregnancy had been healthy & uncomplicated. As an occupational therapist working at a trauma hospital, I felt very prepared for anything medical, anything but a C-section. I had a C-section due to “failure to progress” from an induction. I felt like my body and I weren’t
My rainbow baby journey began almost six years ago: It’s November 2015 and my daughter and I are traveling from Texas to California to deliver the good news to my parents. Saríah, my oldest, is sporting a Big Sister t-shirt and on our drive from the airport we stop to buy balloons. We still have
Angel mom. Married mom. Dog mom. Catholic mom. Working mom. Crafty mom. Loud mom. Planner mom. Childless Rainbow mom. October 10th, 2018 was the worst day of our lives. It was the day that our first son was born into the world. Stillborn into the world. My husband & I decided at the end of 2017 that
1st pregnancy My husband and I got married in September of 2017. We patiently waited until April 2018 to go on our honeymoon. That month we decided “not to not try” and we were pregnant by May! Everything was easy and every appointment went as planned. The biggest scare we had the whole 40 weeks
Kayla’s second daughter Lilah Violet was stillborn on June 19, 2020. Her oldest living daughter, Remy Joelle, is 4 and her rainbow daughter, Eden Livi, was safely born on July 28, 2021. Kayla’s first pregnancy with her oldest was smooth sailing and uncomplicated. With no signs of problems a routine anatomy scan during her pregnancy