I wasn’t a stranger to miscarriages prior to my losses. After all, I’m a rainbow baby myself. My Mom lost twins in the 2nd trimester, and I always remember her talking openly about it. My husband and I had gotten pregnant quickly with our now almost 4 year old son in 2018. It was soon after […]
Hello! My name is Khadijah and this is my story about finding my rainbow. My husband and I got married back in March of 2008. We originally talked about waiting 3 years to start a family. Even after wanting to wait, we found out I was pregnant in March of 2009. Although it wasn’t planned,
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 got married April 2018 and I was pregnant before the end of the year. We actually took a trip to Mexico for the holidays and found out Christmas
My husband, Matthew and I met in college. We got married fairly young in 2012, I was 24 and he was 25. We knew from early on in our relationship that we both wanted several children. We rented an apartment for the first few years of our marriage and were not actively trying or preventing
My husband and I got married when we were 33 and 37, and we wondered if we would face fertility issues because of our ages. However, I found out I was pregnant in May 2017 soon after we started trying to conceive. We were following the traditional “Don’t tell anyone until you reach 12 weeks”,
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“But what if we get pregnant before May?” I asked my then-fiancé when we discussed stopping birth control about three months before our wedding. It was February. I wasn’t sure if I would still fit into my wedding dress at two months pregnant, and I sure didn’t want to risk it. After careful deliberation, we
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In 2019 I fell pregnant with my first child only to find out a month before I gave birth that it was triplets. It was a shock but I was excited at the same time. My pregnancy journey was not easy, I had every single symptom you can think of times a 100 and the
Holly-Rose’s Story All I ever wanted was to be a Mum. After me and my husband got married all we had been talking about is making our family bigger but we wanted to buy our house first and pick the perfect family area which we did. In the process of looking for our house we
Olivia’s Story When I found out I was pregnant in March of 2020, there were a lot of mixed emotions. Terrified, as this was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amazed, as I was diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 16 (and firmly believed I was unable to conceive), but most of all excited,
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, Eli, and I were on vacation in Kauai when we found out we were pregnant. Eli had proposed to me the day before, and I said “yes!” The next afternoon I
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