When I was 12 weeks pregnant we found out our son had T21. We were happy we were going to have some extra love. At week 18 we found out he had Ebstein’s Anomaly. The first thing they told us was that he wouldn’t make it to 40 weeks. I felt his first kick when […]
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
Beautiful Chapters in our Family’s Journey Being pregnant has become a big part of my identity over the last eight years as we grew our beautiful family. While I am excited to start the next chapter of our lives, I am also saddened that my chapter of carrying our babies is likely closed. Photo credit:
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
My Husband and I met in 2015 and got married in 2018. We started trying not long after with no luck. In February 2021 we got our first positive. A week later I started spotting. During ultrasound there was no heartbeat and it showed the baby had stopped developing around 6 weeks. In February 2022
My story begins in 2018, two years before embarking on our TTC journey, back when my now husband, Sean and I were still just dating. Today, we live in Atlanta, GA, but back then, we were living in Washington DC. Life was beautiful. We were traveling a lot, we were enjoying living in a new
The first few weeks after finding out I was pregnant were filled with naïve bliss as we dreamed about a future with our little one. However things started to change after a work trip ended in me coming down with a stomach virus that caused me to not be able to keep fluids down. This
Vanessa and her husband, Jonathan, were unsure if they wanted to expand their family after having their first living child, their now 5 year old daughter, Lily but after she turned 4, they decided they were ready to add another child to their family. In the fall of 2022, Vanessa became pregnant with their second