My name is Monika, a Canadian sharing my journey of losses, heartbreaks, angel babies, and my precious rainbow baby. I met my husband in 2015. We got engaged in 2019 and married in July 2022. On Family Day, February 19, 2023, we discovered we were pregnant. The excitement and nerves were overwhelming as this was […]
I am not sure how to describe the last 6 years. Full of grit and determination that I found in places I didn’t know I had within me. I was blessed to have an uneventful pregnancy and birth with my first child, Holden. Two years later, we got pregnant and then at 10 weeks had
Since 2011, at 16 years old, I was told I would never have a chance to be a mother. Having endometriosis stage 4 and due to the severity of the scar tissue on the lining of my uterus was too great. In November 2016 this was confirmed and I had to process the fact I
My husband and I were trying for 8 months of tracking cycles and surges when the purchase of our fixer upper finally went through, with 2 weeks until our current lease was up. During the mad dash to get things mostly move in ready and move out of one place and move into another, I
My fertility journey started January 2023 when I was diagnosed with PCOS and factor v leiden, a blood clot disorder known for causing miscarriages. We had suspected that I had FVL due to a loss right before getting diagnosed. Between then and meeting my partner, I had another loss that no one knew about. I
In 2020 I became a mother. I gave birth to a beautiful 9-pound baby boy. It was the textbook pregnancy that was boring and uncomplicated. In 2023, we got pregnant again! We got pregnant fairly quick in the 2nd month of trying and felt very blessed. We had our 8-week ultrasound and saw the baby’s heartbeat
Our journey started in 2018. We lost my mother in law in June and found out we were pregnant in August. This news was a light in all the darkness. We celebrated with family and friends, but unfortunately we found out very quickly that this pregnancy was not viable. The loss was shocking, lonely, and
My name is Courtney and I’m here to tell my story of having HOPE. My husband Bryce and I met in March of 2018 and got married in November of 2019. We found out we were pregnant on Thanksgiving of 2019 and announced to our parents and family members on Christmas that we were expecting.
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‘It’s worked!’ I said to my husband Simon, one cold February morning holding out a white stick for him to see. We both stared at the two lines; one fainter than the other but unmistakably there. ‘I’m pregnant.’ I had not expected to fall pregnant so quickly, for no other reason than I knew it