My name is Elizabeth and I’m a mom of three boys. Whenever I tell people that they always tell me how busy I must be or how much money I’ll be spending on groceries when they’re teenagers. I wish they were right. In 2016, after an uneventful pregnancy I gave birth to our first son. […]
FIRST PREGNANCY Upon finding out we were pregnant for the first time, everything was exciting and blissful. I was so excited to set up the nursery, baby registry, plan a baby shower, and pick a name. We found out we were having a little girl and had an epic gender reveal party on the 4th
My journey to motherhood wasn’t what I expected. Like most others, in sex education class I was taught how to prevent pregnancy as though it was the easiest accident to happen. Never did I realize how difficult it could be for families to bring home healthy babies. My first pregnancy happened the first month we
My husband and I had been trying for a sweet baby since we got married April 7, 2012. We ended up using fertility medications and were thrilled to find out we were pregnant in July of 2015. Our joy quickly turned to sadness when my daddy unexpectedly passed away from a brain bleed he didn’t
My name is Carrie, just a Wisconsin girl writing my story about losses, heartbreaks, my angel babies and my precious rainbow daughter. I feel most women when they are little girls they dream about their wedding, their future husbands and having little babies. That was never the case for me growing up. I never wanted
My story of motherhood started on February 11th, 2011 when I gave birth to a little girl. Charlea is her name. She’s now 9. I was naïve and didn’t think about or know about loss at this point. I knew people lost children but I was one of the few who assumed it wouldn’t
We found out we were pregnant with Jasmine a few months after a failed fertility treatment. We had done a treatment that was successful, but then ended in miscarriage. My HCG levels were falling, but then started rising again, so I had to take a shot of methotrexate. This meant we had to
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Mama to Cadence and Savannah March 2015: The soft movements in my belly stopped. Ensue chaos, confusion, tears, and heartbreak. I was induced at 28 weeks on a Monday night, and Cadence was born still on Tuesday. Her father and I held her, family got to see her, and we had a few pictures taken.