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 […]
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? Getting pregnant was not easy for us, though we thought it would be. We spent a year after our wedding (which happened to be at the prime of COVID) tracking and timing everything. Eventually I scheduled
I’ve probably rewritten this story a dozen times in the months leading up to sharing it with the world. How do you narrow down almost 5 years, 4 pregnancies, 6 babies, and a total life change in few enough words that anyone would actually care to read it. Truth be told, each of these 4
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My name is Angelina. I have three living children Lillianna, Samuel and Emma, and two angels, Jasmine and their brother or sister lost due to ectopic pregnancy. I found out I was pregnant with my 4th child on January 16th, 2022. I had a stressful pregnancy. If you’re over the age of 40, the conversations
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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
The road to conception I met my husband April of 2018, and we got married May of 2020. I have always wanted to be a mother and my marriage gifted me with four stepchildren who I adore and love like my own. My husband and I never wanted to force them to call me mom
Naomi’s journey to her rainbow wasn’t an easy one. Her & her husband of 16 years dreamed of becoming parents. Over the last four years they experienced 5 miscarriages & 1 ectopic pregnancy which could have claimed her life & left her with only one functioning tube. Naomi underwent two corrective procedures to even make having a
Our story begins in the beginning of 2020, my husband Ryan and I were dating for a little over two years and I confessed to him my fears of not being able to get pregnant. I have always suffered with terrible periods and PCOS so I knew it would be a struggle. From the time
On September 13, 2022, I experienced the worse pain you could imagine. I had been bleeding for a week, thinking it was my period. I carried on waiting for it to be over to begin a new cycle of ttc. By day 9, after dealing with heavy bleeding, horrible cramps, and nausea, I texted my
Everyone looks at me and just assumes that having children was easy for me. Oh how wrong they are! I’ve been pregnant 9 times but only had 4 successful pregnancies, one with identical twins. It all started in 2016 when I had my first miscarriage. Then in 2017 I had an ectopic pregnancy which was