My story starts at age 19 (in 2011) when I began having issues with ovarian cysts. This is also when I experienced my first miscarriage. At the time I thought it was just a really horrible horrendous period. It was scary as up until that point I had never experienced clotting or anything similar. It […]
We feel very privileged to be able to participate in the rainbow skirt project. I came across it on social media earlier in our journey at a time when I wasn’t sure we would ever be where we are today. My wife and I have been together almost 6 years. I’ve always known I wanted to
Kevin and Ashley began their fertility journey after their wedding in 2022. They were able to successfully get pregnant on the first try, but sadly lost their baby to miscarriage after seeing a heartbeat at 8 weeks. After 6 months of grieving, they got pregnant again, but lost this baby at 6 weeks. After this
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 incredibly difficult. I told them at 16 that it would most likely be difficult due to my PCOS. I was put on birth control from 16 to about 20 when my
Two years ago we started IVF in my home country the Netherlands due to severe endometriosis. We were lucky enough to be able to transfer 6 embryos. The 1st one was positive but unfortunately became an early miscarriage on the same day. I was more relieved that I had my first pregnancy ever, proof that my body works
Our journey started almost exactly 5 years ago, when we realized we weren’t getting pregnant after a year of tracking my ovulation. After a series of tests, we found that we were dealing with severe male factor infertility. After many more tests and lots of waiting and thinking about the next steps, we decided to
Since 2011, at 16 years old, I was told I would never have a chance to be a mother. Having endometriosis stage 4 and due to the severity of the scar tissue on the lining of my uterus was too great. In November 2016 this was confirmed and I had to process the fact I
My husband and I were trying for 8 months of tracking cycles and surges when the purchase of our fixer upper finally went through, with 2 weeks until our current lease was up. During the mad dash to get things mostly move in ready and move out of one place and move into another, I
I got diagnosed with endometriosis in Nov 2022 and I thought I would struggle to conceive but to my surprise I fell pregnant in May 2023. I had a straightforward pregnancy with no complications or concerns until I got up to 39 weeks. I went in for my routine midwife appointment which was on a
Our fertility journey started in 2018 after returning from our first big trip through Europe. After trying for 12 months, we decided to seek help. This is how I learned I had endometriosis and adenomyosis, and suddenly last 10 years of pelvic pain and horrible periods finally made sense. Then, in 2019 we gave up