At 39 weeks pregnant with my second child, I woke up to an overwhelming silence. My daughter had always been so active, but today, I hadn’t felt a single movement. A deep sense of unease settled over me, though I tried to convince myself everything was fine. I had a prenatal appointment scheduled later that […]
In sept ‘22, I was in a car accident that changed my life. I lost my career that day along with part of who I was. Less than 3 weeks after I found out I was pregnant! I was not working, fully casted and so depressed. Finding out I was pregnant was a dream come
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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? Getting pregnant has always been pretty easy for me. We struggled for a couple of months to become pregnant with my first child but my doctor discovered that I was deficient in
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I’m Ashley. I’ve been pregnant 5 times. I have had 4 miscarriages and my stillborn daughter, Serenity. I was 28 when I first found out I was pregnant. I thought it was a joke cause at 19 I was told I would never have children. I was not in a great relationship and ended up losing
When I learned I was pregnant with Oscar Apollo, I felt deep in my bones that this pregnancy and his birth would be both very sacred to me and very different than the births of his other siblings. I did not know what this meant, but now I have a better idea. The first 16
My husband and I got married in August 2016. In summer of 2017, we began trying for a baby. We got a positive test in late September. We were overjoyed to begin a family. In November while lying on the couch I began feeling some super sharp cramps in my stomach. I got up to
January of 2022 we found out we were having our first baby together (my fiance has a 9 year old son and I have a 9 year old daughter from before we met each other). I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and I was kept on a strict diet and close monitoring with a high
My name is Angelina. I have three living children Lillianna, Samuel and Emma, and two angels, Jasmine and their brother or sister lost due to ectopic pregnancy. I found out I was pregnant with my 4th child on January 16th, 2022. I had a stressful pregnancy. If you’re over the age of 40, the conversations
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My husband and I weren’t really planning to get pregnant. Late 2021, I stopped taking my birth control, and we figured we’d see what happens. We were freshly married, doing well in our careers and in our first home. So, we were open to whatever came our way. May of 2022 we were surprised by
I became pregnant after only 3 months of trying and felt so blessed that it happened so quickly. I had a textbook normal pregnancy and was over the moon to find out I was having a little girl. We decided to name her Ella Rose. At 37 weeks pregnant I went into labor, exactly 20