My name is Courtney and I’m here to tell my story of having HOPE. My husband Bryce and I met in March of 2018 and got married in November of 2019. We found out we were pregnant on Thanksgiving of 2019 and announced to our parents and family members on Christmas that we were expecting. […]
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‘It’s worked!’ I said to my husband Simon, one cold February morning holding out a white stick for him to see. We both stared at the two lines; one fainter than the other but unmistakably there. ‘I’m pregnant.’ I had not expected to fall pregnant so quickly, for no other reason than I knew it
I got diagnosed with endometriosis in Nov 2022 and I thought I would struggle to conceive but to my surprise I fell pregnant in May 2023. I had a straightforward pregnancy with no complications or concerns until I got up to 39 weeks. I went in for my routine midwife appointment which was on a
“If it happens, it happens!” That was our mindset for about a year. We stopped using protection and just casually hoped a little one would pop up in my belly. At the end of that year, we decided we were absolutely ready to start a family. But we were a little concerned about why it
Rya Rain Hello my name is Rayona. I’m 28 years old. My whole life all I ever wanted was a family and to be a mom. I struggle with PCOS and after trying for so long I never thought I’d be a mom. In April 2023, I found my happy ending, Mike. He was everything
I remember being so excited to be pregnant, we were trying for a few months and knew with PCOS it wouldn’t be easier but after all those opks and fertility monitors I found out I was pregnant. Every appointment being told everything was normal NIPT came back negative and it was only until our anatomy
My name is Abri, and my husband, Tyler, and I got pregnant with our first baby, Judah Tyler Frees, in October 2021, a few months before our fifth year wedding anniversary (which was in April 2022). We’d been planning for a baby most of our marriage, but had not yet felt financially ready. When we
As I sit in my bed, after excusing myself from the mellow Saturday family hang-out downstairs, I am reflecting on “my story”. It’s easier said than done. Not only do I need to make physical time to write, away from distractions, I have to re-engage in the last year + of life-altering events. I have
My husband and I got married in August 2020, when we were both 35. We knew we wanted to have kids, so we started trying right away. He was so confident we would get pregnant easily, but I worried, knowing that it starts to get harder in your mid-30s. After almost a year of trying
On July 13th 2021, my world as I knew it changed forever. My sweet daughter was born still at only 21 weeks and 5 days gestation. My pregnancy was anything but normal. Shortly after I got my positive pregnancy test I started bleeding. I figured it was a miscarriage. But the bleeding continued so I