My future husband and I met in college marching band in 2010 and married in June 2017. After a few years, we decided it was time to start our family. I am considered high risk because I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in August 2013. We knew we wanted kids to be part of our […]
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After 5 years of trying to conceive, my husband and I welcomed our double rainbow baby Alden James on October 1st 2024! It was a very long road to get here and unfortunately, our story is riddled with infertility diagnoses and recurrent loss. After trying for a baby for 3 years, we lost our first child
“If it happens, it happens!” That was our mindset for about a year. We stopped using protection and just casually hoped a little one would pop up in my belly. At the end of that year, we decided we were absolutely ready to start a family. But we were a little concerned about why it
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