Rya Rain Hello my name is Rayona. I’m 28 years old. My whole life all I ever wanted was a family and to be a mom. I struggle with PCOS and after trying for so long I never thought I’d be a mom. In April 2023, I found my happy ending, Mike. He was everything […]
I remember being so excited to be pregnant, we were trying for a few months and knew with PCOS it wouldn’t be easier but after all those opks and fertility monitors I found out I was pregnant. Every appointment being told everything was normal NIPT came back negative and it was only until our anatomy
My name is Abri, and my husband, Tyler, and I got pregnant with our first baby, Judah Tyler Frees, in October 2021, a few months before our fifth year wedding anniversary (which was in April 2022). We’d been planning for a baby most of our marriage, but had not yet felt financially ready. When we
As I sit in my bed, after excusing myself from the mellow Saturday family hang-out downstairs, I am reflecting on “my story”. It’s easier said than done. Not only do I need to make physical time to write, away from distractions, I have to re-engage in the last year + of life-altering events. I have
My husband and I got married in August 2020, when we were both 35. We knew we wanted to have kids, so we started trying right away. He was so confident we would get pregnant easily, but I worried, knowing that it starts to get harder in your mid-30s. After almost a year of trying
On July 13th 2021, my world as I knew it changed forever. My sweet daughter was born still at only 21 weeks and 5 days gestation. My pregnancy was anything but normal. Shortly after I got my positive pregnancy test I started bleeding. I figured it was a miscarriage. But the bleeding continued so I
Hello, I never thought I would be writing this. As a teenager I thought I would just be a mom and never deal with any struggle to become one, but here I am. When I met my husband and talked about having kids, we didn’t factor in the 2 years it would take to get
Dylan and I fell in love hard and fast the summer we met. Our whirlwind summer romance turned into a Thanksgiving engagement. After less than two years together, we were married. By the second anniversary of our engagement, we had lost three babies. None of those pregnancies were intentional, but all of them were loved
Over two years ago I found myself pregnant for the first time ever, after if I am being really honest, not even trying. My husband and I were approaching our first wedding anniversary and had just moved into a new house. When I found out I was pregnant, I was so shocked that I convinced myself
I’m sitting here holding my bump, willing the little one (22 weeks – July 2024) to wiggle, so I can feel reassured. Today I should have been 40 weeks with my 3rd star in the sky. We are so incredibly lucky to have experienced a hoped for but unexpected, joyful pregnancy before loss. My boy