In friendships, it is rare for both people to be broken in the same ways at the same time. Our friendship has been remarkably easy to navigate – maybe “easy” is not the right word, but we have understood each other’s challenges on a level beyond what most can understand. Even when that is not […]
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At 24, I was confronted with my fertility before I was even ready to seriously think about it. Silently and symptomlessly, endometriosis had raised havoc on my reproductive organs. In that moment, I knew that having children wasn’t going to be easy for me. I had suffered a major loss, but I kept being told
When my husband and I decided to grow our family in 2015, we had no idea the roadblocks that would be ahead. Shortly into our journey, after an early miscarriage at 10 weeks, we learned I had Premature Ovarian Failure and would never be able to conceive naturally. We spent several years grieving that loss
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My first pregnancy with our first child was going swimmingly. Prenatal testing showed no risk factors, we learned we were expecting a boy, and all our scans and appointments so far had been mercifully uneventful. Then, following a slightly elevated blood test result in January 2021, my doctor recommended moving up my anatomy scan by a couple
My name is Amy and I am 29 years old from a small island in New-Brunswick, Canada. My husband Francis and I met when we were 15 years old and have been inseparable ever since. We decided to start trying to conceive right after our wedding and we were blessed to find out we were
After 8 years of IVF (numerous laparoscopic surgeries, egg collections and embryo transfers) we are beyond privileged to have had 3 children: 2 in our arms and 1 in our hearts. Sadly our story of infertility sees no end in sight and, we don’t have a rainbow baby on the way, to complete our family. I
After six years of marriage and 13 years together, my husband and I decided to finally start trying for a baby in April 2019. After a year of unsuccessfully trying, we pursued infertility testing with my regular OB, and I got a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
My name is Tahnee and I am 28 years old from South East Queensland, Australia. I am mum to Archer born 11 December 2019, our baby “Bloom” due 6th May 2021 but who never got to meet this earth and left us October 2020 and our rainbow girl McKenna born 12 December 2021. Something I never would
Hallie Grace Davis June 5, 2021-September 8, 2021 I’m an older mom and honestly was not sure for a long time if I would ever have children. When my husband and I married, I was already 37 and just didn’t know if it was in the cards for us. We started trying to conceive within
I never expected to be waiting on a rainbow. When we got married, we knew we wanted to try for children right away. So we did, but after a year with no success we learned that we were facing an uphill battle with infertility. One round of IVF later, we were blessedly pregnant with our