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
I had 3 chemical pregnancies before I got pregnant with my living daughter. My pregnancy with my daughter was fairly normal, until it wasn’t around 31 weeks. That was when I started experiencing high blood pressure and swelling. At 32 weeks, after catching my blood pressure at 140/90 at home, I was first hospitalized and diagnosed with
Hi, I’m Chelsea and this is my wife Brittany and I’s fertility journey turned rainbow baby story. We decided we were ready to grow our family in September 2020. At the time we both thought this journey would be pretty simple. Yes, we had to have medical help getting pregnant. But hey, the ladies in
On January 20, 2016, I found out I was pregnant. My husband (then fiancé) and I were 22 and 21 years old, and set to finish up our last year of college in the fall. Even though we weren’t exactly trying for a baby, I was so overwhelmed with emotion when I saw that positive
My name is Emily and I am Rh- My husbands name is Bryan and he is Rh+ We got married on November 15th 2019. I am 22 he is 25, We have been together since 2013. We were just kids. We started trying to conceive after one year of marriage. Our first pregnancy was in
Pregnancy loss is a devastating experience, no matter what type of loss you have and no matter how far along you were at the time. Most people have heard of a miscarriage, but there are actually many different types of pregnancy loss. Whether you had a very early miscarriage or a late stillbirth, your loss
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My first son saved my life. I was young, 19 when I found out I was pregnant and getting out of a domestic violent relationship. I had lost myself and my worth to life. I’ll never forget going to the doctor asking for antidepressants and instead leaving finding out I was pregnant. I was so
Sometimes I think about the girl I was before miscarriages and infertility consumed my life. I wonder what she would be doing now or what kind of person she would be. It’s been almost ten years since my first miscarriage and yet it doesn’t feel as long ago and far away as the person I