After a year spent travelling, adventuring and settling into life as newlyweds, my husband Tom and I decided we were ready to try for a baby in July 2023. I felt cautious from the beginning. Before this pregnancy, I had already experienced two early miscarriages, one from a previous relationship and one chemical pregnancy with […]
As if the unknowns of pregnancy aren’t scary enough, add in a cancer diagnosis. This was our reality. One of my biggest fears for all of my life has been pregnancy. The whole struggle with medical anxiety, mixed with my sensory issues, and a low mental threshold for pain just never made it something I
My story starts many years ago. When I was a teenager, I struggled with my weight. I was always the bigger girl in my classes, within my friend group, even within my family. My mom was a beautiful 5ft petite woman who weighed maybe 110 at her heaviest. When I went to the doctor around
We knew we wanted our kids a couple years apart, we had already lost a pregnancy to a blighted ovum, we had already had a rainbow baby. We wanted to try for our last child. Our son was almost 2. We got pregnant the first try. I was already considered high risk, I have uterus
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