Project Finding Your Rainbow is raising awareness for pregnancy & infant loss. This rainbow skirt travels from person to person across the country and has even been to 2 other countries giving women a platform to share their stories and experiences. When I first received this skirt and opened it from the box it came […]
What a journey we have been on. So many ups and downs and we are thankful for all of them that have led us to where we are today! My husband and I were married in November of 2010. We tried for 5 long years to conceive our first baby. Like most newlyweds we were
My husband and I decided to start trying to conceive right around our first anniversary in July 2019. In September, we found out that we were expecting. A few weeks went by, and I had absolutely no symptoms. I thought I just got lucky and would have an easy pregnancy. The morning of our 8
Everything was going perfectly. Our daughter was asking for a sibling, and we were finally in a comfortable position to add to the family. I got pregnant right away, in fact I found out I was pregnant on my fiancé’s birthday. It’s a boy! We were overjoyed, while our daughter hysterically cried at the news.
My pregnancy journey began in October 2019. I had a ‘missed miscarriage’ at 6 weeks and lost the baby at 8 weeks. I was in Orlando on a business trip at the time and needed a D&C. It was scary and sad, but I knew that it was a risk of pregnancy at 38. I
On August 26th, 2016 I gave birth to twin boys, Matix and Tegan. They were stillborn. I had learned a little over two days previously at a routine ultrasound that they had passed away. I was induced that same day and after more than two days of labor, finally delivered their perfect bodies. There was
Our journey to finding our rainbow A few years ago my husband and I were married and like most, hopeful, to begin trying to build our family. We were not in a huge rush but also not ‘preventing’ it anymore and letting God take the helm. After about a year of no luck we had
My loss story starts out a little differently. In March 2011 I was 7 weeks pregnant with identical twin girls when I lost them. But they weren’t my babies. I was a gestational surrogate. The loss was hard, and I endured an awkward grief because the twins were biologically not mine. I mourned their loss,
On April 29, 2019 my life changed forever and the woman I once was no longer existed. I had already been blessed with 6 healthy pregnancies that resulted in 6 Healthy Babies so when I found out I was expecting baby number 7 despite my age and being told I would automatically be put in
My story is of secondary infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss. After having successful pregnancies and coming from a family of women who got pregnant and stayed pregnant without issue, experiencing infertility and miscarriage caught me so off guard. My husband and I have identical twin boys who are five and another little boy who is