In July 2019 I suffered my first miscarriage I named that baby Lily In November 2021 I suffered my second miscarriage I named that baby Lukas In 2022 I was diagnosed with pcos and I lost hope in ever being a mum to a baby on earth In 2023 I got engaged to my fiancé […]
My name is Angelina. I have three living children Lillianna, Samuel and Emma, and two angels, Jasmine and their brother or sister lost due to ectopic pregnancy. I found out I was pregnant with my 4th child on January 16th, 2022. I had a stressful pregnancy. If you’re over the age of 40, the conversations
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My husband and I weren’t really planning to get pregnant. Late 2021, I stopped taking my birth control, and we figured we’d see what happens. We were freshly married, doing well in our careers and in our first home. So, we were open to whatever came our way. May of 2022 we were surprised by
In November of 2022, we found out five months after the adoption of our oldest son Theo, that we were pregnant with his baby brother Rowan. My husband Kyle and I were ecstatic. About six weeks prior to us finding out we were pregnant, we started working with a fertility doctor. I have PCOS, so
I became pregnant after only 3 months of trying and felt so blessed that it happened so quickly. I had a textbook normal pregnancy and was over the moon to find out I was having a little girl. We decided to name her Ella Rose. At 37 weeks pregnant I went into labor, exactly 20
I had a fairly easy route to becoming a mom. My husband and I were blessed to get pregnant with our first son soon after we started trying to start a family. I had a pretty normal pregnancy until I was diagnosed with Cholestasis and induced at 36 weeks. After spending some time in the
I’m Jamie Massey, 43 years old, live in North Texas and host the Over 40 Fabulous and Pregnant Podcast where we share pregnancy stories of women over 40. Our journey started in January 2021 after we got married. I lost the first pregnancy early in October of that year and was pregnant the very next
My husband and I got married Sept 2022. When we got married he gained two bonus daughters. My twin girls were conceived IVF. We wanted to have a baby right away and prayed it would happen fast for us. Three month after our wedding, we were pregnant! So excited and just full of hopes and
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