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2 Successful Pregnancies After Miscarriage, PCOS & Finding Healing
by Kirsten Hopfensperger Before the Miscarriage My husband and I have a long history, so it makes sense that our path to becoming parents would be long too. He had a crush on me since grade school, and we began dating in high school. I was engaged at eighteen and...
Pregnancy in Late 30s, Triploidy Syndrome, and IVF
Lucy shares her story of pregnancy in her late 30s and early 40s including triploidy syndrome, multiple miscarriages and one beautiful, healthy son.
Recovering from the Trauma of Miscarriage During Covid: O- Blood Type & Creating Space to Heal
April 4, 2017, should have been a great day. I should have gone to my doctor appointment, seen my sweet, now 14-week-old baby on the ultrasound, and found out their gender (or at least a pretty good guess). I should have then left my appointment and gone to the store to pick out an outfit for either a little girl or a little boy, wrapped it in cute baby-themed packaging, and waited for my husband to come home from work so he could unwrap it and find out whether we would be welcoming a little boy or a little girl into our family that October. Instead, I found out our baby no longer had a heartbeat.
Twin Miscarriage Success Story- Multiple Losses & A Rainbow Baby
A story of hope after multiple miscarriages including a twin miscarriage.
My husband and I dated for SIX years before we were married. We talked about everything under the sun, especially children: How many? When do you want to start? How do you want to raise them? Do you have a name list? But we never talked about this. Sure, we might have agreed about adoption if we couldn’t have kids, but that topic was quickly dismissed since we both came from extremely large and fertile families. Surely infertility won’t happen to us? Ha! And here we were. I was completely taken off guard.
Miscarriage Success Story: Struggles with TTC, Miscarriage & Misoprostol + A Journey of Self Love
My husband and I started trying to conceive on our honeymoon. I knew something wasn’t working properly in my body because I couldn’t seem to get a positive ovulation test and I had missed my period for three months. Between wedding activities, my grandfather dying of cancer, and working in a job that I hated, my body had been going through a lot.
Miscarriage Story of Hope: PCOS, MTHFR, Blood Clotting Disorder, Ectopic Pregnancy & Recurring Miscarriages
When I think back on our fertility journey, I’ve only recently been able to see the lessons in it. By identifying my weaknesses, it allowed me to grow personally. It added strength to our marriage by forcing communication and emotional reliance on each other. Embracing something positive from a negative has taken years and wasn’t an easy path.
Multiple Miscarriages, Including an Ectopic Pregnancy: Kim’s Story of Hope After Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL)
By Kim Hooper I have a confession: For most of my adult life, I proclaimed that I did not want children. Ironically enough, one of the major things that scared me away from motherhood was the fear of losing a child. Years before I got pregnant, I wrote a letter to my...
Miscarriage Success Story After Multiple Rounds of Fertility Treatment
A success story of pregnancy and baby after miscarriage and multiple failed rounds of IUIs and IVF.
Recurrent Miscarriage Story: The rainbow after the storm
April 4, 2017, should have been a great day. I should have gone to my doctor appointment, seen my sweet, now 14-week-old baby on the ultrasound, and found out their gender (or at least a pretty good guess). I should have then left my appointment and gone to the store to pick out an outfit for either a little girl or a little boy, wrapped it in cute baby-themed packaging, and waited for my husband to come home from work so he could unwrap it and find out whether we would be welcoming a little boy or a little girl into our family that October. Instead, I found out our baby no longer had a heartbeat.
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Success Story: Conceive, bleed, grieve & repeat
When I think back on our fertility journey, I’ve only recently been able to see the lessons in it. By identifying my weaknesses, it allowed me to grow personally. It added strength to our marriage by forcing communication and emotional reliance on each other. Embracing something positive from a negative has taken years and wasn’t an easy path.