Two years ago we started IVF in my home country the Netherlands due to severe endometriosis. We were lucky enough to be able to transfer 6 embryos. The 1st one was positive but unfortunately became an early miscarriage on the same day. I was more relieved that I had my first pregnancy ever, proof that my body works […]
First of all I’d like to thank you for reading my story. Hi, my name is Femke, I am 27 years old and I live together with my boyfriend Damian in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Our journey starts in October 2021. How it all began : In October we decided it was time for a baby
My husband, Noah, and I decided to start trying to conceive in summer of 2022. Due to my PCOS and previous miscarriage, we were concerned we would struggle to conceive. We tried for 6 months before returning to the doctor to learn that I was not ovulating consistently. We eventually were recommended to do 6
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Our story. Me and my husband got married in 2015, the day after I graduated high school. Not long after being married, I found out I was expecting. We were so excited for what this would mean for us, having a little family of our own. A month after we found out, I lost the
My husband and I started trying to conceive in December 2019, shortly after we bought our home, and two years after we got married. I stopped taking birth control, but six months later, my period never came and I wasn’t ovulating. I met with my gynecologist in August 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying
My husband Jared and I found out by accident we were pregnant in 2022, it was the craziest surprise since we weren’t specifically family planning at the time, but had left the possibility of kids open after our first year of marriage. As any excited first time parents do, we immediately started sharing the news
Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? We started trying in 2017 after getting married. No luck naturally. We started seeing specialists and getting tests done in 2021. I have PCOS and my left fallopian tube is blocked and my
Right before my husband and I got married we decided to get off birth control so that we could have a baby right away. He has two children from his previous marriage and they were still young and we wanted to add to our family sooner rather than later. I had had a previous miscarriage
On June 2019, after work, still in my scrubs I had a feeling I should do a pregnancy test. Once I saw the plus signs, I started to have an overwhelming feeling of anxiety, fear, and excitement. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to be a mother. I told my husband with tears in
I was no stranger to hardship when it came to becoming a mother. It took 3 years of trying to conceive, several surgeries/procedures, 5 iuis, and 1 round of IVF to conceive my daughter. I felt scared of losing her the whole time I carried her but nothing prepared me for the heartache of