I had a fairly easy route to becoming a mom. My husband and I were blessed to get pregnant with our first son soon after we started trying to start a family. I had a pretty normal pregnancy until I was diagnosed with Cholestasis and induced at 36 weeks. After spending some time in the
I’m Jamie Massey, 43 years old, live in North Texas and host the Over 40 Fabulous and Pregnant Podcast where we share pregnancy stories of women over 40. Our journey started in January 2021 after we got married. I lost the first pregnancy early in October of that year and was pregnant the very next
My husband and I got married Sept 2022. When we got married he gained two bonus daughters. My twin girls were conceived IVF. We wanted to have a baby right away and prayed it would happen fast for us. Three month after our wedding, we were pregnant! So excited and just full of hopes and
Before I start my story about love, grief, perseverance, and most of all ambiguity I would like to tell you a little bit of who I am and where this journey started. By 2023 I had been to more than 300 births as a doula, student midwife, assistant midwife and was now starting my primary births
In January of 2022, my husband and I found out we were pregnant again. We were so excited to give Adalyn (first pregnancy and daughter born August 2020) a sibling, due right after her 2nd birthday! On March 1st, at our first ultrasound, we found out it was conjoined twins (Thoraco-omphalopagus). The next two weeks
My journey into motherhood started off… well… interesting. My husband and I knew we wanted kids. But I was starting to become hesitant about timing in 2020 when I was a full time COVID ICU nurse… I had two pregnant moms parish that I took care of. One with child and the others baby was
I have pretty regular cycles so when I noticed that I was a couple days late I thought that was off. I finally took a pregnancy test because I wanted to be certain that I wasn’t pregnant, but I was! I actually took a video capturing the moment just in case. Immediately shock and fear
Growing up, I had always known I wanted to be a Mom. I had some great women figures (including my own mother) in my life to look up to and aspired to one day be like them. Life takes you on different paths and it’s not always what you expect, at some point in my
My husband and I got married in September of 2019. We were having so much fun being young and in love that we decided to wait on growing our family. In 2021 I was on a birth control that was giving me horrible migraines. We decided that it was time to stop contraceptives all together.
No words can describe the feeling you have when you go from complete joy to complete heartache all in the space of a couple of hours, it changes you. The grief that comes with loosing a baby……..I still can’t put into words exactly how I feel. There have been so many emotions I have experienced
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