I’ve always been plus-sized and struggled with heavy cycles, pain, and cramping, but for years doctors only offered birth control instead of looking deeper. By my late 20s, my husband and I were trying to conceive. After three years of heartbreak, I finally saw my very first positive pregnancy test on February 13, 2017—just shy […]
The Griffis family story is one of unwavering love, deep grief, and overwhelming hope. It’s the kind of story that takes you through valleys of heartbreak and peaks of unimaginable joy, all while holding onto faith and a commitment to make a difference in the lives of others. Our journey began on November 11, 2011,
I started having babies when I was really young. Getting pregnant that first time was almost too easy; and it came as quite the surprise. It was my 21st birthday. She was a very easy pregnancy, and was born right at 40 weeks without issue. I had two early miscarriages nine months and fourteen months
Hi my name is Krystal and I am married to my husband Jake. We met in college when I was a junior and Jake was a senior. We quickly became best friends and started dating in 2013. We got married in August of 2017. After getting married, I moved in with Jake and our dog
Our story. Me and my husband got married in 2015, the day after I graduated high school. Not long after being married, I found out I was expecting. We were so excited for what this would mean for us, having a little family of our own. A month after we found out, I lost the
Our fertility journey has been years in the making with some really great highs and awful lows. My journey began years ago before I met my partner in which I suffered two very early miscarriages I never spoke to anyone about. I never shared these stories outside of the doctors who saw me through them.
I am not sure how to describe the last 6 years. Full of grit and determination that I found in places I didn’t know I had within me. I was blessed to have an uneventful pregnancy and birth with my first child, Holden. Two years later, we got pregnant and then at 10 weeks had
Our journey started in 2018. We lost my mother in law in June and found out we were pregnant in August. This news was a light in all the darkness. We celebrated with family and friends, but unfortunately we found out very quickly that this pregnancy was not viable. The loss was shocking, lonely, and
“If it happens, it happens!” That was our mindset for about a year. We stopped using protection and just casually hoped a little one would pop up in my belly. At the end of that year, we decided we were absolutely ready to start a family. But we were a little concerned about why it
As I sit in my bed, after excusing myself from the mellow Saturday family hang-out downstairs, I am reflecting on “my story”. It’s easier said than done. Not only do I need to make physical time to write, away from distractions, I have to re-engage in the last year + of life-altering events. I have