2018 The day before my birthday. My wife, Alanna, and I had been trying for a child for several fruitless years. Alanna had been feeling strange for several days and as time progressed, she was feeling worse and worse. She emerged from the bathroom – a pregnancy test clutched in her hand. “Pregnant” it read. […]
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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? I joined the military in 2015 and went through numerous types of birth control and never liked any of them due to weight gain, mood swings, irregular periods, etc. I decided in
I have a bicornuate uterus and have always been scared that would interfere with me having children later on. My husband and I found out we were expecting on December 26th 2021. I told my husband by putting the test in his stocking. It was truly the most happy months of our lives. One night
I found out I was pregnant with our first in early 2017. At our first ultrasound, the technician told us baby was measuring about two weeks behind; I had an irregular cycle, which they said made sense with what they were seeing. They moved my due date out 16 days, but the best part of
In September 2021, we got the surprise of our life when we found out we where expecting! At twelve weeks when we got our heads around this big life change we weren’t planning on, we had plans to tell family the following week. I started seeing signs of early miscarriage, but I knew a little
In friendships, it is rare for both people to be broken in the same ways at the same time. Our friendship has been remarkably easy to navigate – maybe “easy” is not the right word, but we have understood each other’s challenges on a level beyond what most can understand. Even when that is not
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When my husband and I decided to grow our family in 2015, we had no idea the roadblocks that would be ahead. Shortly into our journey, after an early miscarriage at 10 weeks, we learned I had Premature Ovarian Failure and would never be able to conceive naturally. We spent several years grieving that loss
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My first pregnancy with our first child was going swimmingly. Prenatal testing showed no risk factors, we learned we were expecting a boy, and all our scans and appointments so far had been mercifully uneventful. Then, following a slightly elevated blood test result in January 2021, my doctor recommended moving up my anatomy scan by a couple
My name is Amy and I am 29 years old from a small island in New-Brunswick, Canada. My husband Francis and I met when we were 15 years old and have been inseparable ever since. We decided to start trying to conceive right after our wedding and we were blessed to find out we were
My name is Tahnee and I am 28 years old from South East Queensland, Australia. I am mum to Archer born 11 December 2019, our baby “Bloom” due 6th May 2021 but who never got to meet this earth and left us October 2020 and our rainbow girl McKenna born 12 December 2021. Something I never would