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 got married when I was 23 years old. At that time my biggest dreams were to finish my studies, take a trip and expand our family. I always dreamed of having a boy and a girl. 6 months after getting married I started bleeding for a month without stopping. After many medical tests we
In 2018, just 3 short months after marrying my sweet husband, we found a genetic marker in our family which meant that my husband and I couldn’t naturally conceive. We had just purchased a 6 bedroom house, so we were devastated. In 2023 we were finally ready to go the medical route, and did an
My husband and I got married in September of 2019. We were having so much fun being young and in love that we decided to wait on growing our family. In 2021 I was on a birth control that was giving me horrible migraines. We decided that it was time to stop contraceptives all together.
Having babies is supposed to be easy. Let’s face it, if a teenager can get pregnant in the backseat of a Buick, surely an adult woman with a checking account and moderate anxiety can figure it out. However, maybe age was the exact hurdle in my case. Had I waited too long? Had the baby
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My husband and I were married in 2016. In 2018 we got pregnant with our now 5 year old after 2 months of trying. The pregnancy was amazing…no morning sickness, no complications other than needing a c section. We decided to start trying for another baby in 2021. After 2 years of trying we decided
My story begins in 2018, two years before embarking on our TTC journey, back when my now husband, Sean and I were still just dating. Today, we live in Atlanta, GA, but back then, we were living in Washington DC. Life was beautiful. We were traveling a lot, we were enjoying living in a new
I was single and approaching my 40th birthday. I’d been thinking since my last disastrous relationship that I should be prioritising becoming a Mum and it wasn’t until a friend suggested single mother by choice ivf that I started looking into my options. Fast forward to just after the first covid lockdown and my first
My husband and I were married March, 2022. We started to try to conceive a few months after marriage. I was tracking ovulation and month after month, getting negative pregnancy tests. The first year was so hard. I desperately wanted to get pregnant and it wasn’t happening. My doctor told me I needed to wait
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