Our journey started in 2019, just a few short months after we got married when we decided we were ready to start trying for a baby. By September I realized something wasn’t right with my cycles and later was diagnosed anovulatory and referred to a fertility clinic. In October of 2020, we tried our first […]
Our journey to expand our family began in August of 2016. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary with a naïve proclamation that we would start our family. First try, pregnant! I look back at that time and the person I was and think of how innocent and excited that I was. I did not know
My rainbow baby journey began almost six years ago: It’s November 2015 and my daughter and I are traveling from Texas to California to deliver the good news to my parents. Saríah, my oldest, is sporting a Big Sister t-shirt and on our drive from the airport we stop to buy balloons. We still have
What a journey we have been on. So many ups and downs and we are thankful for all of them that have led us to where we are today! My husband and I were married in November of 2010. We tried for 5 long years to conceive our first baby. Like most newlyweds we were
My husband and I decided to start trying to conceive right around our first anniversary in July 2019. In September, we found out that we were expecting. A few weeks went by, and I had absolutely no symptoms. I thought I just got lucky and would have an easy pregnancy. The morning of our 8
My pregnancy journey began in October 2019. I had a ‘missed miscarriage’ at 6 weeks and lost the baby at 8 weeks. I was in Orlando on a business trip at the time and needed a D&C. It was scary and sad, but I knew that it was a risk of pregnancy at 38. I
On August 26th, 2016 I gave birth to twin boys, Matix and Tegan. They were stillborn. I had learned a little over two days previously at a routine ultrasound that they had passed away. I was induced that same day and after more than two days of labor, finally delivered their perfect bodies. There was
Our journey to finding our rainbow A few years ago my husband and I were married and like most, hopeful, to begin trying to build our family. We were not in a huge rush but also not ‘preventing’ it anymore and letting God take the helm. After about a year of no luck we had
My loss story starts out a little differently. In March 2011 I was 7 weeks pregnant with identical twin girls when I lost them. But they weren’t my babies. I was a gestational surrogate. The loss was hard, and I endured an awkward grief because the twins were biologically not mine. I mourned their loss,
My story is of secondary infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss. After having successful pregnancies and coming from a family of women who got pregnant and stayed pregnant without issue, experiencing infertility and miscarriage caught me so off guard. My husband and I have identical twin boys who are five and another little boy who is