Cera found herself unexpectedly miscarrying after 6 years of being in cancer remission. This moment changed everything. The grief of never being able to have children while simultaneously losing one lead to a journey.
After deciding to try to have children and many medical evaluations, it took 6 months of trying to get pregnant again.
She lost this baby very early in March 2023. December 31st of 2023 she found herself pregnant again.
On Feb 14th 2024, she went to her ultrasound appointment at 12 weeks and learned that the baby did not develop past 6 1/2 weeks and there was no heart beat. She experienced was is known as a missed miscarriage.
After 3 losses, it felt hopeless to keep trying but she couldn’t find herself ready to let go. She spent 6 months traveling and enjoying life with her husband. They decided together to work with a fertility clinic to help her chances of staying pregnant.
With the help of fertility treatments she was able to get pregnant quickly but silently suffered many lonely nights in fear and extensive progesterone supplements until her first ultrasound. At 7 weeks “a heartbeat.” At 9 weeks, “still a heartbeat.” At 11 weeks she graduated her fertility clinic.
At 20 weeks, she discovered her “son” She feels him move, and roll, and his health is in perfect order. He is due Feb. 2026 .
Photos taken by Kate Hallsen.
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My journey to motherhood started like many others, full of excitement and the assumption that it would just work out. Within three months of trying, we were pregnant. We were overjoyed. But that joy didn’t last long. Around five weeks, I miscarried. We were heartbroken, but we tried to stay hopeful. Then, the very next month, I was pregnant again. It felt like a miracle, like maybe the first loss had just been a terrible fluke. But at six weeks, we lost that pregnancy too. That was the moment I realized this wasn’t random. I went to the doctor looking for answers, but I kept hearing the same thing. Everything looks normal. Sometimes this just happens. Just keep trying. I never accepted that, because deep down it never felt right. Loss changes you. There is no way around it. When you lose a pregnancy, you don’t just lose a moment in time. You lose the dreams you had already started building. You imagine birthdays that will never happen, tiny hands you never got to hold, and a future that suddenly disappears. The grief is hard to explain unless you have lived through it. It is the grief that keeps…
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