I’ve probably rewritten this story a dozen times in the months leading up to sharing it with the world. How do you narrow down almost 5 years, 4 pregnancies, 6 babies, and a total life change in few enough words that anyone would actually care to read it. Truth be told, each of these 4 […]
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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? My husband and I were married for 3 years, together for 6 years, when we decided we would like to start a family. We always believed that if it was God’s will
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Before I start my story about love, grief, perseverance, and most of all ambiguity I would like to tell you a little bit of who I am and where this journey started. By 2023 I had been to more than 300 births as a doula, student midwife, assistant midwife and was now starting my primary births
In January of 2022, my husband and I found out we were pregnant again. We were so excited to give Adalyn (first pregnancy and daughter born August 2020) a sibling, due right after her 2nd birthday! On March 1st, at our first ultrasound, we found out it was conjoined twins (Thoraco-omphalopagus). The next two weeks
My journey into motherhood started off… well… interesting. My husband and I knew we wanted kids. But I was starting to become hesitant about timing in 2020 when I was a full time COVID ICU nurse… I had two pregnant moms parish that I took care of. One with child and the others baby was
The first few weeks after finding out I was pregnant were filled with naïve bliss as we dreamed about a future with our little one. However things started to change after a work trip ended in me coming down with a stomach virus that caused me to not be able to keep fluids down. This
We started trying for a baby in 2021 and found out I was pregnant shortly after in August. I was carrying mono-mono twins at the time. We went for our ultrasound appointment and a few more that confirmed it wasn’t a viable pregnancy and unfortunately that pregnancy ended in a mmc that resulted in a
Paisley, Caleb, Rowan & baby #4 Our story starts back in 2020. My now husband and I had been together for 4 years at this point and I was pushing closer and closer to 30. I wanted kids before I was 30 but wanted to be married first and knew my periods were not super
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My husband and I struggled to conceive, so we’ve been doing fertility treatments. We have been blessed with a son who was born in 2021. My husband and I cherish our family and decided we wanted to grow ours. We did a frozen single embryo transfer in February 2023 and that one had failed. We
Everyone looks at me and just assumes that having children was easy for me. Oh how wrong they are! I’ve been pregnant 9 times but only had 4 successful pregnancies, one with identical twins. It all started in 2016 when I had my first miscarriage. Then in 2017 I had an ectopic pregnancy which was