I have thought about having babies ever since I was a little girl. I loved playing pretend with my baby dolls. In February 2022, about two years after I got married, my husband I decided we were in a place we felt ready to start trying to get pregnant. I had started a birth control […]
Pregnancy is a period of life that often comes with many questions. These questions often surround the safety of things we do in our daily lives. One common concern among expecting mothers is the safety of continuing activities they enjoyed before pregnancy. During the warmer months, many people like to spend time out on the
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I’m Ashley. I’ve been pregnant 5 times. I have had 4 miscarriages and my stillborn daughter, Serenity. I was 28 when I first found out I was pregnant. I thought it was a joke cause at 19 I was told I would never have children. I was not in a great relationship and ended up losing
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