My name is Emmalee, and on March 3rd 2024 we lost our son at 33 weeks.
My husband and I have a toddler and in the fall of 2023, our family was unexpectedly growing.
We found out we were pregnant with our second child in August of 2023. Shortly after finding out about our baby, I started to bleed. As someone who had never experienced loss, we were absolutely terrified. The bleeding came randomly and inconsistently, so my doctor was monitoring me closely. He sent us to ultrasound after ultrasound where we kept being told the baby was growing fine and the heartbeat was strong. Around week 7, I went into the hospital with excruciating pain that felt like contractions, but no bleeding. The doctors told us to prepare and expect to lose our baby. After several hours of time in the hospital, we learned that I was experiencing a heterotopic pregnancy. This means I had a twin pregnancy, but one baby was in my tube (an ectopic pregnancy) and one baby in my uterus at the same time. To fix this, they needed to perform surgery to remove my tube baby. The surgery was successful; however, that meant we lost a twin and were only left with the baby in my uterus.
We continued the pregnancy as normal.
However, on March 1st 2024 at just under 33 weeks, we went into the hospital for lack of fetal movement. We were given the news that our baby had no heartbeat and I needed to be induced to deliver our sleeping son.
Hudson Alexander Moss was born forever sleeping on March 3rd, 2024.
After five months of TTC, we found out we were pregnant with our rainbow baby boy in August of 2024, almost a year after finding out about Hudson.
When we first found out about this baby, I was hoping so hard for a baby girl. I was terrified to have another son. I wanted to keep my “boy mom” side reserved for the son we would never raise. I did not want to know what we would be missing out on when it came to raising a boy.
Now I am due on May 5th 2025, and we are so nervous and excited to welcome our second son and third child into the world.
We never thought we would have a “rainbow” baby, but we feel so blessed to have experienced these things as a family.
Our rainbow baby was safely born on April 23rd 2025.
Photos taken by Heather Cobb Photography.
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