Morgan and her husband were thrilled to welcome Henry into the world. During labor at the hospital, Henry experienced extreme lack of oxygen (causing Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy/HIE) and the forceps were used incorrectly causing a massive brain bleed. Due to the severe HIE and the trauma from birth, they lovingly and compassionately removed life support […]
Everything was going according to their plan, Jeremy and Stefanie went to college, got married and started having kids. After three girls they were excited to welcome a little boy. Stefanie’s pregnancy, like the others, had been filled with prenatal anxiety, depression and morning sickness but was otherwise normal. But when their son Brody was born,
I’ve known since I was a teenager that I would never be able to conceive naturally, not even with IVF. I essentially had no eggs. I always hoped the doctors were wrong, but I lived with the knowledge that I would probably never experience being pregnant and giving birth. When I married my husband, we
My husband, Jesse, and I met on 12 July 2017. I lived in Sydney, Australia. Jesse lived in Kansas City, Missouri where he was serving in the United States Air Force at the time. After flying back and forth to see each other multiple times we both knew we wanted to start a family together.
I go back and forth on what I think of the term “rainbow baby.” It has personally resonated so much with me, however I can’t think of it without thinking of my friends who can’t or choose not to have another baby after loss, or my friends who struggle to conceive. I know that phrase
Meghan and her husband started trying to get pregnant right after their wedding and got pregnant in the first month. The pregnancy went fairly easy, but unfortunately she found out that her son Caleb had passed away when she went into labor. He was born May 2019. They started trying again and were pregnant only
Charlene and Owens’ story. July 18th, a morning I woke up to feeling a change in my body. It was a very positive feeling, my boobs were still sore and by today it would have stopped being sore because I would have expected my period to start and I was always dead on time. I
In May of 2020 we found out I was pregnant after about 5 months of trying. I felt so lucky to have gotten pregnant relatively quickly, especially with everything we had going on in our lives. COVID was brand new and my mom had just recently been diagnosed with Brain Cancer. I was so excited
My journey to motherhood began with my son in 2017. We became pregnant very quickly after deciding to start our family and were blessed with a beautiful baby boy. In late 2018 we decided to expand our fam and this time proved to be more difficult. Every month I was full of hope and every
