The talk of starting a family was nerve wracking but oh so exciting. My husband and I were ready to have a baby after years of dreaming of the “one day”. Surprisingly enough, our prayers had been answered fairly quickly. August 26, 2023, I saw the two pink lines and I felt my heart grow. I was going to […]
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 my 1st was easy. We were pregnant by the 6 week checkup for the miscarriage. She turns 6 in January. With my 2nd rainbow we started trying September/October 2023
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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 has always been pretty easy for me. We struggled for a couple of months to become pregnant with my first child but my doctor discovered that I was deficient in
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I’m Ashley. I’ve been pregnant 5 times. I have had 4 miscarriages and my stillborn daughter, Serenity. I was 28 when I first found out I was pregnant. I thought it was a joke cause at 19 I was told I would never have children. I was not in a great relationship and ended up losing
On October 6, 2018 my husband Kyle and I were married. It was one of the happiest days of our lives. We had been through so much already as a couple, and couldn’t wait to start a family together. We talked about how many children we wanted, and even had names picked out before we
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
In 2023 we started trying for a baby. I have PCOS and had to use clomid and we were so lucky to get pregnant on our third round! Only for it to turn out to be a blighted ovum MMC. 3 months later (my first cycle back after the MMC) I got pregnant again on
When I learned I was pregnant with Oscar Apollo, I felt deep in my bones that this pregnancy and his birth would be both very sacred to me and very different than the births of his other siblings. I did not know what this meant, but now I have a better idea. The first 16
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 was not easy for us, though we thought it would be. We spent a year after our wedding (which happened to be at the prime of COVID) tracking and timing everything. Eventually I scheduled
I’ve probably rewritten this story a dozen times in the months leading up to sharing it with the world. How do you narrow down almost 5 years, 4 pregnancies, 6 babies, and a total life change in few enough words that anyone would actually care to read it. Truth be told, each of these 4
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