After years of trying to get pregnant we turned to IVF. A miracle. After only one round, there it was – that illusive second line on a pregnancy test. Twins! Text book pregnancy until a the scan two days before my elective c-section at 37 weeks. I will never forget the expression on the sonographer’s […]
If you have experienced a miscarriage or other pregnancy loss, it is essential that you take steps to take care of your mental and physical health. Your mental health is likely the last thing on your mind as you navigate your grief, but so important so that you can work through the emotions. The loss
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Our journey started with trying to conceive for a year. Working in OB I had some insight as to what needed to happen and when and we were already in our 30s. After 4 months of ovulation induction medication we were still unsuccessful and referred to a RE. After 3 rounds of IUI and no
So my story starts in 2013, when I met my now husband. At that time I was 18, he is 13 years older and already had 2 boys. They were 1 and 5. About 2 months into our relationship I got pregnant with our daughter, and on September 27, 2014, Ember was born. Overall pregnancy
My name is Charlie and I live in Buckinghamshire, England and have been with my husband for 15 years. We were married in 2018 and started trying for a family straight after the wedding. It took us 19 months to fall pregnant and we were over the moon. I didn’t think anything would go wrong;
Pregnancy loss can be one of the most difficult things a family faces. It is so important to talk openly and honestly about the feelings of grief that one may experience during this time. Grief is a natural, but complicated process-there are many different ways to handle it, but for those who find peace through
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Our journey started in 2019, just a few short months after we got married when we decided we were ready to start trying for a baby. By September I realized something wasn’t right with my cycles and later was diagnosed anovulatory and referred to a fertility clinic. In October of 2020, we tried our first
Our journey to expand our family began in August of 2016. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary with a naïve proclamation that we would start our family. First try, pregnant! I look back at that time and the person I was and think of how innocent and excited that I was. I did not know
In March 2018 we welcomed our first daughter. The pregnancy had been healthy & uncomplicated. As an occupational therapist working at a trauma hospital, I felt very prepared for anything medical, anything but a C-section. I had a C-section due to “failure to progress” from an induction. I felt like my body and I weren’t
My rainbow baby journey began almost six years ago: It’s November 2015 and my daughter and I are traveling from Texas to California to deliver the good news to my parents. Saríah, my oldest, is sporting a Big Sister t-shirt and on our drive from the airport we stop to buy balloons. We still have