Hello! My name is Micayla, and our journey to parenthood has looked very different than I ever imagined. My husband, Andrew, and I were married in September of 2018 and decided to start the journey to grow our family in 2020. I am a mental health counselor working primarily with children and adolescents, and have […]
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? It was easy for us to get pregnant and wasn’t TTC for very long. 2. What was the pregnancy like? Was it easy and smooth? Hard with a lot of pregnancy symptoms?
My husband and I got married in October 2016. The day we got engaged it started raining right after he put the ring on my finger, then the day of our wedding was in the middle of a hurricane. They say a lot of things about rain on a wedding day, but it has seemed
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? With our first baby Breagh we became pregnant immediately. We assumed it would be the same for the rest. It was -not-. For Josephine, we tried for over a year then had
I started life off as an adult the hardest way possible. 18, with a newborn. My ex husband and I had an ugly, miserable relationship, but out of that bitterness I got my two sweet kiddos Sterling (10) and Colin (9). Years go by, life happens and my marriage to my kids dad fell apart,
At age 33, I was diagnosed with DOR (diminished ovarian reserve). I was told by my REI I needed to start trying to conceive immediately. We conceived our first child, a little boy, after our 3rd IUI. When we tried for our second child I had an early miscarriage from our 3rd IUI. We then moved
1 in 4. 1 in 8. 1 in 160. All statistics I never thought I would be a part of. I was diagnosed with a uterine issue at 14, and was told that I would either never be able to have children or that at a minimum I would need medical intervention in order to
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment?I had a chemical pregnancy the first time we tried who we named Riley. We had been so excited already coming up with names and when we’d tell family. I remember when I
My husband & I tried to grow our family since 2016. After a year of trying we sought out help from our doctor by just doing some basic blood work and a seman analysis, everything looked perfectly normal. In 2019 I underwent a laparoscopic surgery & was diagnosed with mild endometriosis. We decided that we
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 with our first daughter, Kathryn, was surprisingly easy for us. I dealt with 9 months of morning sickness and developed preeclampsia during labor but she was born healthy at almost