My husband and I met on a blind date in 2010 and have been married for 7 years now. We originally began our journey to become parents in January 2020. As COVID hit and the world shut down, we had a conversation in May 2020 about taking a break. Little did we know we were […]
In 2023 we started trying for a baby. I have PCOS and had to use clomid and we were so lucky to get pregnant on our third round! Only for it to turn out to be a blighted ovum MMC. 3 months later (my first cycle back after the MMC) I got pregnant again on
Jessica and her husband are highschool sweethearts who had always dreamed of a big family. There were no problems getting pregnant with their first. When she turned a year old they decided to try for a second, wanting the first two close in age and got pregnant very quickly again. Unfortunately at 7.5 weeks Jessica
Counting. It’s one the first, most basic skills we learn in school. But never did I think counting would be something I dreaded. I’m an Early Childhood Teacher and mum of 2 at the beginning of my story. My children had both learnt to count now. I thought the days of repeatedly counting were past
We knew we wanted our kids a couple years apart, we had already lost a pregnancy to a blighted ovum, we had already had a rainbow baby. We wanted to try for our last child. Our son was almost 2. We got pregnant the first try. I was already considered high risk, I have uterus
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Maddy always dreamed of having four living children. Maddy was lucky to carry two children, a girl and then a boy, to term without issue. That’s when things began to change. Through the use of fertility medication, she conceived and miscarried at around eight weeks. Then she conceived again, this time twins, but lost one
My husband and I got married in March of 2021, and we decided shortly after to start trying for our first child. We didn’t have to try for very long. After about five months of trying we got our first positive, in Sept 2021. I was so excited and could barely wait to tell my
If you have recently been diagnosed with a blighted ovum, you may be feeling confused or scared and alone. You are not alone. A blighted ovum is a type of early pregnancy loss that usually happens in the first few weeks of pregnancy. This type of loss is not talked about as often as other
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My journey to motherhood wasn’t what I expected. Like most others, in sex education class I was taught how to prevent pregnancy as though it was the easiest accident to happen. Never did I realize how difficult it could be for families to bring home healthy babies. My first pregnancy happened the first month we