My name is Elizabeth and I am a mom to 2 amazing angel babies and a baby girl due to arrive in August 2026. I knew I always wanted to be a mom ever since I can remember dreaming of my future. My husband and I got married in October of 2022 and a month
Madison Pico is a mother of two living children who has also experienced three pregnancy losses while navigating complex family-building decisions. In this episode of Finding Hope After Loss, Madison shares her journey through miscarriage, chemical pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, IVF, and a genetic diagnosis that changed the way she approached future pregnancies. After learning that
My name is Mary-Susan, and this is why I wear the rainbow skirt. When people look at me, they don’t immediately see the years of pain, surgeries, grief, and loss that brought me here. They don’t see the little girl who started bleeding at 11 years old and never really got a break from it.
My journey to motherhood started like many others, full of excitement and the assumption that it would just work out. Within three months of trying, we were pregnant. We were overjoyed. But that joy didn’t last long. Around five weeks, I miscarried. We were heartbroken, but we tried to stay hopeful. Then, the very next month, I was pregnant again. It felt like a miracle, like maybe the first loss had just been a terrible fluke. But at six weeks, we lost that pregnancy too. That was the moment I realized this wasn’t random. I went to the doctor looking for answers, but I kept hearing the same thing. Everything looks normal. Sometimes this just happens. Just keep trying. I never accepted that, because deep down it never felt right. Loss changes you. There is no way around it. When you lose a pregnancy, you don’t just lose a moment in time. You lose the dreams you had already started building. You imagine birthdays that will never happen, tiny hands you never got to hold, and a future that suddenly disappears. The grief is hard to explain unless you have lived through it. It is the grief that keeps on giving. Eventually I started digging deeper into my family’s medical history and pushing for more testing. At a fertility clinic, I had to advocate for myself more than I ever expected. I kept asking to be tested for a rare blood clotting disorder called PAI- 1 4G/5G. Doctors didn’t initially think it was necessary, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was being missed. After a lot of pushing, we finally got an answer. I did have the blood clotting disorder, which can cause recurrent early miscarriage. For the first time since this journey started, we felt like we had a real explanation. The plan seemed simple. The next time I got pregnant, I would start Lovenox and aspirin right away to prevent clotting issues. We thought we had finally solved the mystery. But then another challenge appeared. Almost a full year passed without a single positive pregnancy test. Despite trying everything we could, nothing was working. We eventually went to another fertility clinic and started a full round of testing. I had an HSG, hysteroscopy, and what felt like endless appointments. Nothing major showed up, so we decided to try IUI. Our first cycle failed. Our second cycle never even had a chance because polyps and cysts came back just six weeks after my hysteroscopy surgery. That’s when doctors started to suspect endometriosis. At that point we decided to move forward with IVF. I had laparoscopic surgery and two additional hysteroscopies. During those procedures, doctors confirmed endometriosis and removed polyps, fibroids, cysts, and endometriosis growths. Even with a low AMH, we moved forward with IVF and hoped for the best. Somehow, by what truly feels like a miracle, our first egg retrieval gave us two euploid embryos. After everything we had been through, that alone felt like an incredible gift. Before transfer, I completed two months of Lupron suppression for endometriosis. My protocol included Lovenox, aspirin, antihistamines, steroids, and everything we had learned about my body along the way. Endless patches,
My sweet Alyria, You are our miracle love. Here is the story of how we got to you. In October of 2022, I told dad that I was having really bad baby fever. Dad told me no. I know you find that surprising. Then in November, I told him again. I want to try to
My husband, Kyle, and I couldn’t wait to start a family together. We found out we were expecting when the fetus was the size of a poppy seed and started calling “her” Poppy. We were already envisioning our future family of three. We naively thought getting pregnant was the hard part. We couldn’t wait to
In this episode of Finding Hope After Loss, Lonna shares her heartbreaking experience with stillbirth at 38 weeks after being reassured throughout pregnancy that everything was fine. After being diagnosed with PCOS at a young age and told it may be difficult to become pregnant, Lonna unexpectedly conceived naturally and looked forward to welcoming her
My husband and I have known each other since we were in middle school and we started dating when we were 15 and 16. We got engaged at 19 and 20 and married at 20 and 21. I was still in college so we wanted to wait a little bit to start our family as
In this deeply personal episode of Finding Hope After Loss, Sarah shares the story of giving birth to her “pot of gold” baby after experiencing two miscarriages and a 32 week stillbirth. She opens up about the emotions of pregnancy after loss, what it felt like to finally give birth after pregnancy loss and infertility,
Dr. Heather Browne PsyD, LMFT joins Finding Hope After Loss to discuss the importance of communication while navigating grief after miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Through both professional insight and personal understanding of grief, Dr. Browne shares how loss can affect relationships, emotional connection, and the ways people give and receive love during difficult seasons. In
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