Our fertility journey has been years in the making with some really great highs and awful lows. My journey began years ago before I met my partner in which I suffered two very early miscarriages I never spoke to anyone about. I never shared these stories outside of the doctors who saw me through them. […]
Our Journey to our Rainbow In the fall of 2018 my then boyfriend and I had a discussion about starting a family. I gave him an ultimatum that we didn’t have to get married right then and there but if we wanted kids we’d need to start asap since I was already 38 years old and
I am not sure how to describe the last 6 years. Full of grit and determination that I found in places I didn’t know I had within me. I was blessed to have an uneventful pregnancy and birth with my first child, Holden. Two years later, we got pregnant and then at 10 weeks had
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 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
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
My fiancé and I have been trying to conceive naturally for nearly 7 years. In the fall of 2022, we started our IVF journey. December 9th we had our first embryo transfer. Little did I know, it was my perfect angel in the making. I struggled often from subchorionic hematomas with bleeding starting at
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
Tw: mention of miscarriage, infertility, IVF, SCH My husband and I met in 2nd grade and began dating in high school. After high school graduation, we attended college in different states but continued to date. We often talked about how excited we were to get married and have a family when the time was right.