Before I start my story about love, grief, perseverance, and most of all ambiguity I would like to tell you a little bit of who I am and where this journey started. By 2023 I had been to more than 300 births as a doula, student midwife, assistant midwife and was now starting my primary births […]
In January of 2022, my husband and I found out we were pregnant again. We were so excited to give Adalyn (first pregnancy and daughter born August 2020) a sibling, due right after her 2nd birthday! On March 1st, at our first ultrasound, we found out it was conjoined twins (Thoraco-omphalopagus). The next two weeks
My journey into motherhood started off… well… interesting. My husband and I knew we wanted kids. But I was starting to become hesitant about timing in 2020 when I was a full time COVID ICU nurse… I had two pregnant moms parish that I took care of. One with child and the others baby was
I have pretty regular cycles so when I noticed that I was a couple days late I thought that was off. I finally took a pregnancy test because I wanted to be certain that I wasn’t pregnant, but I was! I actually took a video capturing the moment just in case. Immediately shock and fear
Growing up, I had always known I wanted to be a Mom. I had some great women figures (including my own mother) in my life to look up to and aspired to one day be like them. Life takes you on different paths and it’s not always what you expect, at some point in my
No words can describe the feeling you have when you go from complete joy to complete heartache all in the space of a couple of hours, it changes you. The grief that comes with loosing a baby……..I still can’t put into words exactly how I feel. There have been so many emotions I have experienced
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Jessica and her husband are highschool sweethearts who had always dreamed of a big family. There were no problems getting pregnant with their first. When she turned a year old they decided to try for a second, wanting the first two close in age and got pregnant very quickly again. Unfortunately at 7.5 weeks Jessica
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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Cameron and I have been together since our freshman year in high school, we are high school sweethearts who have been very much in love since September 19, 2018. Our first child together was miscarried in July of 2019, we were going into our sophomore year. We weren’t ready to be parents yet. The pregnancy
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My husband and I had just gotten married when I found out that I was pregnant. We had just sold our house and were in the middle of moving 15 hours away to fulfill our dreams of living in an RV and traveling full-time. Needless to say, the pregnancy was a huge surprise. We were