I found out I was pregnant for the first time in December 2019. My husband and I were thrilled and terrified, but so ready for a baby. We had taken custody of our daughter, Kaylee — biologically my husband’s niece — when she was two, and had been her parents for a year and a […]
I was pregnant with our first child in the fall of 2018, and my husband & I went in for our 20-week anatomy scan expecting to learn baby’s gender. After the technician called 3 other techs in to do some of the pictures, the doctor finally came in to tell us that he saw something
I sat in a hospital bed as the snow gently fell outside my window. The world was so quiet and calm compared to the storm that was swirling inside. My tiny 21 week daughter lay in my arms. Her perfect little nose, 10 tiny fingers and toes, everything absolutely perfect about her, and my body
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? With every one of my previous boys before my Angel (Logan) it took awhile to become pregnant, my first took 2 years, my twins 2 months but we knew the “regimen” that
It’s been two years. I am always in awe of how much time has gone by because the feelings of shock, pain, and grief of losing our first baby, Matteo Angelo, still feel so fresh in my mind and heart. As time goes by, I always think it’s going to be less excruciating when we
When you hear about pregnancy loss, the first thing you think to yourself is, “that can’t happen to me.” In February 2021, I learned I was pregnant with our first and could not wait to add on to our little family of four, which consists of my husband, our cat, Blue, and dog, Hooper. Sharing
My oldest child is 10 years old. I had him when I was 20 years old. My second child is my daughter and she is 4 years old. My third child Remylee was born 8/20/2019. When she was 4 days old we got a phone call that her newborn screening came back showing that she had
Asher’s story: My husband Vaughn and I had been together for 8 years when the military gave us orders to move from our hometown in Colorado to Louisiana. We have always wanted children, but the timing just never felt right. We decided with this new adventure of being in a new state we felt it
Our son Oliver was born in March 2017 after, by all accounts, an uneventful, easy pregnancy. Flash forward 3 years to March 2020, my husband Tom and I had been trying to conceive a sibling for Oliver to no avail for nearly 2 years and were referred to a fertility specialist. On March 13th, as Covid
My husband and I both brought children to our marriage. When we met I was a single mother to a two year old little boy. My husband at the time was a single father to a four year old little girl. From the first moment that they met each other they were inseparable. I knew