I want to tell you a story. A really long story. Not because I think you need to hear it, so much as I just need to tell it. I hate being alone. I have never in my whole life wanted to be alone. Until now. This is by far the hardest thing I have ever gone through, and I am not handling it very well. I have to start at the very beginning. This story basically took all year. At the beginning of...
It seems unfair to write when so many have suffered so much. But I will share. I was blessed with 6 beautiful babies. 4 girls and 2 boys. Our babies were all born within 15 to 18 months of each other. A day after I brought my 5th baby home from the hospital I started getting pain on my right side. I went to the ER and they took me to surgery for a suspected appendectomy but I didn’t get better...
When we found out we were expecting our fourth baby, we were very excited! At 11 weeks along, I felt cramping and experienced bleeding. I made an appointment with my doctor and an ultrasound was performed. I was told to go on bed rest. This was terrible news because I had other very active, young children at home. We kept monitoring the baby’s growth and, during one of the...
After we had William (our third) I had 2 miscarriages back to back. The first miscarriage, the day we found out, I knew, I had a feeling that something wasn’t quite right… and in asked my husband Luke if we could wait to tell anyone (not normal for us…. we were the type to shout it out from the roof tops). We lost the baby a few weeks later at 7 weeks. About 10 months later we...
So we were pregnant, and we were due June 25, 2014. Nathan and I were excited to add to our little family! It has been an interesting journey. Hannah was actually pretty excited too (though she didn’t fully understand). We also had many family members thrilled with our news. There have been many prayers said in our behalf to have another child and those prayers were...
I had 5 miscarriages before we finally got Kanan, my oldest son. All 5 of them were discovered via ultrasound and 4 of them were D&Cs. To add insult to injury, the first D&C was scheduled at a hospital that was out of network and we got billed thousands of dollars for it. Two of the babies were sent for genetic testing to rule that out for a possible cause. Those two were genetically...
April 27th 2012 was one of the hardest days I’ve ever had, as a woman, as a mother, as a human, and as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. On April 27th, 2012 I lost my second child- I was around 10 weeks pregnant, yes I know that so many people have had miscarriages and that it is a “normal” thing. However for me, it was devastating. I questioned so...
My story starts at the tender age of 18. I was a newlywed in college working a full time job. 8 months earlier I had been in an accident and suffered a brain injury that caused many side effects, including fainting spells and short term memory amnesia. I was still recovering from those issues when I met and fell in love with my husband. It was a whirlwind romance. We met and got married in 5...
It’s been almost one year since my miscarriage, and to this day I haven’t shared the story with anyone. – in fact next Saturday will be one year from the day that I began experiencing intense cramping, the first physical sign I had that something was wrong. I was 8 weeks pregnant, and I was going to the doctor in 2 weeks to hear the heart for the first time. The whole experience of...
I had a miscarriage after my oldest child Brisa. It was Good Friday and I was six weeks pregnant. I had only told my husband that we were pregnant so after I miscarried I felt like I couldn’t get emotional support from family or friends because no one even knew I was pregnant yet. I had to go to work Monday even though I was bleeding heavily and cramping. A couple days later was April fools day...
I have 4 living children, but have lost 3. The first one I was only 4 weeks and have tried to convince myself that maybe I wasn’t really pregnant. The second miscarriage was horrific and completely life changing for me. I was 6 weeks (closer to 7) along when it happened. I was sitting at the table eating breakfast with my kids, it was roughly 7:45am. I had been having some stomach cramping when I...