Hi, I’m Chelsea and this is my wife Brittany and I’s fertility journey turned rainbow baby story. We decided we were ready to grow our family in September 2020. At the time we both thought this journey would be pretty simple. Yes, we had to have medical help getting pregnant. But hey, the ladies in […]
My husband and I got married in November 2019 and pretty immediately decided we wanted to try and start a family. We got pregnant quickly and easily and in September 2020 we welcomed our son Elliott into the world. We were so enamored with him, we decided in the fall of 2021, right after our
At age 33, I was diagnosed with DOR (diminished ovarian reserve). I was told by my REI I needed to start trying to conceive immediately. We conceived our first child, a little boy, after our 3rd IUI. When we tried for our second child I had an early miscarriage from our 3rd IUI. We then moved
1 in 4. 1 in 8. 1 in 160. All statistics I never thought I would be a part of. I was diagnosed with a uterine issue at 14, and was told that I would either never be able to have children or that at a minimum I would need medical intervention in order to
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment?I had a chemical pregnancy the first time we tried who we named Riley. We had been so excited already coming up with names and when we’d tell family. I remember when I
My husband & I tried to grow our family since 2016. After a year of trying we sought out help from our doctor by just doing some basic blood work and a seman analysis, everything looked perfectly normal. In 2019 I underwent a laparoscopic surgery & was diagnosed with mild endometriosis. We decided that we
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? Getting pregnant with our first daughter, Kathryn, was surprisingly easy for us. I dealt with 9 months of morning sickness and developed preeclampsia during labor but she was born healthy at almost
Ruby Rose was our angel baby right from the beginning. Getting pregnant for us was a surprise, we were not trying or planning on having a baby any time soon. We were both still living in apartments and wasn’t sure what the next couple years would bring. Although unplanned this was a pleasant surprise that
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One would have looked on the outside and seen that me and my husband had just gotten married and we were happy and everything was going so smoothly for us. We thought the worst of our unforeseen troubles were behind us as we were supposed to have our wedding in 2020 but the world stopped
I spent my whole adolescence surrounded by pregnancy and birth. My father is the eldest of 7 children in an Irish catholic family that began its growth in 1955, so the family values were pretty rich. As a result I was constantly curious of the Anatomy of pregnancy and the process of birth. It wasn’t