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
Our journey to a baby wasn’t easy. My husband Dan and I had been trying to fall pregnant for around a year when I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). I was sent to a fertility specialist (who is now also my obstetrician and one of the kindest, most empathetic doctors I’ve ever met!)
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In 2019 my husband, Jeremiah, and I decided to try and start our family. We had suspicions of the difficulty we would face due to medical history, but that didn’t make the wait any less painful. After a year and a half of trying to conceive we started the process of IVF, our only chance
My first pregnancy was a complete surprise. We weren’t trying, I was on birth control. I only took a test because I just felt a little off and my period had never fully showed up. To my utter shock, it was positive! I was thrilled because although we weren’t trying, I had prayed the month
Maddy always dreamed of having four living children. Maddy was lucky to carry two children, a girl and then a boy, to term without issue. That’s when things began to change. Through the use of fertility medication, she conceived and miscarried at around eight weeks. Then she conceived again, this time twins, but lost one
Sometimes I think about the girl I was before miscarriages and infertility consumed my life. I wonder what she would be doing now or what kind of person she would be. It’s been almost ten years since my first miscarriage and yet it doesn’t feel as long ago and far away as the person I
1. Describe the process of getting pregnant. Was it easy for you? Was it hard? Did you have to go through fertility treatment? It often makes me feel guilty as I know the struggles so many face with infertility but I never have had issues getting pregnant. My first three pregnancies occurred naturally, without trying.
My name is Cristina. In 2015, I was blissfully happy and expecting twins. Since I was a little girl, I always felt twins were in my future. They ran in my family, and I always wished it waited for me. When I found out it was twins, I had this overwhelming feeling, but I was