Our Journey to our Rainbow In the fall of 2018 my then boyfriend and I had a discussion about starting a family. I gave him an ultimatum that we didn’t have to get married right then and there but if we wanted kids we’d need to start asap since I was already 38 years old and […]
After 5 years of trying to conceive, my husband and I welcomed our double rainbow baby Alden James on October 1st 2024! It was a very long road to get here and unfortunately, our story is riddled with infertility diagnoses and recurrent loss. After trying for a baby for 3 years, we lost our first child
Getting pregnant was easy for me. I am currently pregnant for the fourth time at 40 years old and my first pregnancy was at 21. My first two pregnancies were not planned as I was very young and did not have a good relationship or stability with the father. My loss pregnancy and this one
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My name is Monika, a Canadian sharing my journey of losses, heartbreaks, angel babies, and my precious rainbow baby. I met my husband in 2015. We got engaged in 2019 and married in July 2022. On Family Day, February 19, 2023, we discovered we were pregnant. The excitement and nerves were overwhelming as this was
I am not sure how to describe the last 6 years. Full of grit and determination that I found in places I didn’t know I had within me. I was blessed to have an uneventful pregnancy and birth with my first child, Holden. Two years later, we got pregnant and then at 10 weeks had
Since 2011, at 16 years old, I was told I would never have a chance to be a mother. Having endometriosis stage 4 and due to the severity of the scar tissue on the lining of my uterus was too great. In November 2016 this was confirmed and I had to process the fact I
My husband and I were trying for 8 months of tracking cycles and surges when the purchase of our fixer upper finally went through, with 2 weeks until our current lease was up. During the mad dash to get things mostly move in ready and move out of one place and move into another, I
My fertility journey started January 2023 when I was diagnosed with PCOS and factor v leiden, a blood clot disorder known for causing miscarriages. We had suspected that I had FVL due to a loss right before getting diagnosed. Between then and meeting my partner, I had another loss that no one knew about. I
In 2020 I became a mother. I gave birth to a beautiful 9-pound baby boy. It was the textbook pregnancy that was boring and uncomplicated. In 2023, we got pregnant again! We got pregnant fairly quick in the 2nd month of trying and felt very blessed. We had our 8-week ultrasound and saw the baby’s heartbeat
Our journey started in 2018. We lost my mother in law in June and found out we were pregnant in August. This news was a light in all the darkness. We celebrated with family and friends, but unfortunately we found out very quickly that this pregnancy was not viable. The loss was shocking, lonely, and