Everyone looks at me and just assumes that having children was easy for me. Oh how wrong they are! I’ve been pregnant 9 times but only had 4 successful pregnancies, one with identical twins. It all started in 2016 when I had my first miscarriage. Then in 2017 I had an ectopic pregnancy which was […]
For me, my very first pregnancy was a complete surprise! My husband but then fiance at the time were less than a month out from our wedding and those two little pink lines showed up on a beautiful Sunday morning in May. To say that we were in complete shock at the time is an
Our story is a bit of a long one, with recurrent pregnancy loss and complications. I’ve summarised it as best as I can but want to add whilst there is loss and trauma, there was (and is) so much support and love from our family and friends. Maxx and I knew we always wanted children
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? My husband and I were not trying to get pregnant but were not preventing it. I had just settled into the thought that we likely wouldn’t have another baby since nothing had
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. Our wedding was scheduled during co-vid. My now husband and I had been together for 5 years before getting engaged. In August we decided we were
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My husband Larry and I met in elementary school. We didn’t become friends until high school and began dating our senior year, in October 2006. We got engaged in June 2013, and we’re married in October 2014. In 2015 after 9 years together we decided it was time to start trying for a baby. We
I had my daughter 4 years ago despite a difficult pregnancy and a traumatic birth and labor/delivery experience. Got hit with ppd and ppa very hard. We finally decided we were ready to continue growing our family last year and we gratefully got pregnant right away. Saw my OB for my first sonogram at 8
Getting pregnant wasn’t easy like you would think it should be. For my husband and I it took two years of trying. One full year of tracking my ovulation cycle. A week before I was going to begin different fertility treatment options and testing it happened. A test came back positive. At last sweet Angel
My husband and I met in March 2016. He had just turned 25 and I was about to. We got engaged in October of 2017 and married a year later. My mom had some troubles conceiving, so we agreed to try shortly after getting married. We got pregnant on our second cycle. I had a
Just ten days before our due date, we lost our sweet Lydia. We spent a beautiful day with our then two year old son, Anthony, visiting a local farm, trying to soak in the last days together as a family of three. The post-Christmas and New Years sluggishness was in full effect, and we wanted